York Historic Environment Record

1934, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Bachelor Hill, Acomb, pp198-199 (Article in Journal). SYO2061.

The finding here of small shards of Roman pottery and fragments of human bone, together with the form of the hill, led Mr. T. P. Cooper to put forward the suggestion that this was a Roman burial mound.
A series of trial trenches, to test this hypothesis, were dug on October 12th and November 5th, 1932, by boys from Bootham School, York, under Philip Corder. These proved that the mound was of natural formation, consisting of clean yellow sand and glacial gravel and clay, undisturbed sand being found from about a foot from the surface in most places. The tumulus-like appearance of the mound was apparently due to ploughing round it, when the trees of the plantation had been first planted, buried rabbit-wire being found on all sides of the mound at the edge of the apparent tumulus.
No explanation was forthcoming of the presence of the small fragments of Roman pottery on the surface, nor of the human bones.