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Ant Hills is a Bronze Age burial mound situated at Monkridge in Northumberland. The monument survives as an earthwork mound of typical barrow form, representing the funerary practices of prehistoric communities in the region during the second millennium BCE. Such barrows served as burial places for individuals of status within Bronze Age society and constitute important archaeological evidence for understanding settlement patterns and ritual practices in northern England. The site's survival as a discrete earthwork preserves valuable information about the ceremonial landscape of Bronze Age Northumberland.
Ant Hills (burial mounds), Monkridge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006608. View the official record →
Ant Hills is a Bronze Age burial mound situated at Monkridge in Northumberland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006608.
Ant Hills (burial mounds), Monkridge is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1006608.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Romano-British farmstead 1.4km north-west of Ferneyrigg (6.4 km), Deserted village (site of) at West Whelpington Crag (6.5 km), Ferneyrigg moated site (6.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ant Hills (burial mounds), Monkridge's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Ant Hills (burial mounds), Monkridge stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordinate sandstone, interbedded.