diff --git a/consensus/beacon/consensus.go b/consensus/beacon/consensus.go
index 45a480c50e33..d46be8036d4f 100644
--- a/consensus/beacon/consensus.go
+++ b/consensus/beacon/consensus.go
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ var (
 // codebase, inherently breaking if the engine is swapped out. Please put common
 // error types into the consensus package.
 var (
-	errTooManyUncles    = errors.New("too many uncles")
 	errInvalidNonce     = errors.New("invalid nonce")
 	errInvalidUncleHash = errors.New("invalid uncle hash")
 	errInvalidTimestamp = errors.New("invalid timestamp")
@@ -192,10 +191,6 @@ func (beacon *Beacon) VerifyUncles(chain consensus.ChainReader, block *types.Blo
 	if !beacon.IsPoSHeader(block.Header()) {
 		return beacon.ethone.VerifyUncles(chain, block)
 	}
-	// Verify that there is no uncle block. It's explicitly disabled in the beacon
-	if len(block.Uncles()) > 0 {
-		return errTooManyUncles
-	}
 	return nil
 }