# Pexton Moor

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**Pexton Moor** is an [archaeological site](/source/Archaeological_site) in [North Yorkshire](/source/North_Yorkshire) containing a prehistoric cemetery. It is located at the western edge of [Dalby Forest](/source/Dalby_Forest), north of [Thornton-le-Dale](/source/Thornton-le-Dale). It forms part of the [Arras Culture](/source/Arras_Culture) of inhumation and [chariot burial](/source/Chariot_burial) prevalent in the region during the [British Iron Age](/source/British_Iron_Age).

## The site

The site comprises a single chariot burial excavated in 1911 by [John Kirk](/source/John_Kirk_(archaeologist)) and [Oxley Grabham](/source/Oxley_Grabham).[1] Kirk recorded that a gamekeeper on the site had discovered fragments of iron whilst [rabbiting](/source/Rabbiting) at the site. He subsequently recorded a barrow approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) in width and 4-5 ft m in height containing a mass of corroded iron which was subsequently identified as a chariot wheel.[1] Kirk returned in 1935 to undertake a more complete excavation with A.E. Wellsford; she retained notes on the excavations which were eventually published by [Ian Stead](/source/Ian_Stead) in 1959.[2] Stead's report showed that the chariot burial was in a square-barrow, two iron wheels were excavated in their upright positions, and an iron bridle bit was also discovered. The wheels and bridle from this excavation were originally displayed in the [York Castle Museum](/source/York_Castle_Museum).[2] They are now in the collection of the [Yorkshire Museum](/source/Yorkshire_Museum).[3]

A well-preserved [round cairn](/source/Round_cairn) at the site dating to the Late [Neolithic](/source/Neolithic) to the Late Bronze Age periods, not investigated by Kirk and Grabham, was [scheduled](/source/Scheduled_monument) in 1972.[4] A pair of prehistoric linear boundaries, each several hundred metres in length, surround the site on its north and eastern edges.[5]

## See also

- [Arras Culture](/source/Arras_Culture)

## References

1. Kirk, J. L. (1912). ["The Opening of a Tumulus near Pickering"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/250212#page/125/mode/1up). *Annual Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for 1911*

1. Stead, I.M. (1959). "A Chariot Burial on Pexton Moor, North Riding". *Antiquity*. **33** (131): 214-216.

1. Stead, I. M. (1979). *The Arras Culture*. Yorkshire Museum.

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