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Bastle and round cairn at Hole Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Northumberland, England. The site comprises a round cairn, a characteristic form of ritual and funerary architecture from prehistory, which would have functioned as a burial structure or ceremonial focal point for the local community. The presence of the bastle, a fortified farmhouse structure typical of the Anglo-Scottish border region from the medieval period onwards, indicates that the site experienced significant activity and settlement in later periods. The combination of prehistoric and early modern structures at the location demonstrates the extended chronological depth of human activity and the reuse of ancient burial sites as settlement locations across different historical periods.
Bastle and round cairn at Hole Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008993. View the official record →
Bastle and round cairn at Hole Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Northumberland, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008993.
Bastle and round cairn at Hole Farm 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 1008993.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Goodwife's Hut Romano-British settlement, 310m WNW of South Farm (6.3 km), Romano-British farmstead, 400m north east of Hole House (8 km), Bastle immediately east of Mortley (8.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bastle and round cairn at Hole Farm'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.
Bastle and round cairn at Hole Farm stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordinate sandstone, interbedded.