page_title: Cliffe, Richmondshire
section_title: Bronze Age
hierarchical_section_title: Cliffe, Richmondshire / Archaeological sites / Digs and finds / Bronze Age
caption_attribution_description: English: Source description says: "Betty Watson's Hill near Piercebridge. Much of the land in this locality is quite flat. One exception to this is Betty Watson's Hill (shown here) which lies just to the east of Cliffe Hall. This photograph was taken from the public footpath (which runs over the hill) looking in a northerly direction towards Piercebridge. The River Tees lies just beyond the trees that can be seen in the background of the picture." This site is in the area of Cliffe, Richmondshire.
context_page_description: Cliffe is a small village and civil parish in the Tees Valley near Piercebridge in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, about 6 miles west of Darlington, and 10 miles north of Richmond and the Yorkshire Dales. The population of the civil parish as taken by ONS at their 2011 Census was less than 100, so information is included in the parish of Manfield. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 30.
  Cliffe has a long history, as shown by the number and range of archaeological sites from tumuli to an English Civil War battleground, most of which are scheduled monuments. A stream called the Glen runs through the village to the Tees. Together with Manfield, Aldbrough St John and Melsonby it forms the ward of Melsonby whose total population recorded at the 2011 census was 1,406, and the area is largely agricultural. The village is notable for its 17th-century Grade II listed George Hotel, where the story behind the song, My Grandfather's Clock, is said to have originated in 1875.
context_section_description: The Betty Watson's Hill Bronze Age barrow 1,120 feet (340 m) east of Cliffe Hall was excavated in 1904. It was described as a flat-topped bowl barrow, and it was noted that "the large hole in the centre is probably due to robbers or an unrecorded excavation". In 2007, a cup-marked 29×23×16 cm boulder with two 5 cm cups was found in field-edge dumps 50m south-east of the Betty Watson's Hill barrow. "The cobble was removed from the field edge and placed back on the barrow top. This now puts an early Bronze Age date to the monument." The boulder is believed to have originated in the robbed-out barrow. A round barrow is recorded 190m south-east of Cliffe Hall.
caption: Tumulus: Betty Watson's Hill
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