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Bradley's Cairn is a prehistoric round cairn with standing stones located near Cookstown in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The monument sits on bedrock formed from a mafic igneous intrusion of Silurian age, which outcrops across much of the surrounding landscape. This dark volcanic stone would have been a prominent natural feature available to Bronze Age communities building in the area.
The cairn comprises a circular mound of stones surmounted by standing stones, typical of burial monuments constructed during the later prehistoric period. Such cairns commonly contained cremated remains and grave goods, reflecting both the ritual practices and stone-working capabilities of their builders. The surviving stones indicate the monument's original scale and significance within the local landscape.
The site is protected as a scheduled monument by the Historic Environment Division of Northern Ireland under reference 14443. Its location near Cookstown places it within a region rich in prehistoric archaeology, where similar cairns and standing stones mark the presence of ancient communities across the Bronze Age and early Iron Age. The monument remains an important record of ritual practice and settlement patterns in prehistoric Ulster.
Bradley's cairn. round cairn with standing stones is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 14443. View the official record →
Bradley's Cairn is a prehistoric round cairn with standing stones located near Cookstown in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 14443.
Bradley's cairn. round cairn with standing stones dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Bradley's cairn. round cairn with standing stones is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 14443.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn & alignment (0.4 km), Cairn (0.8 km), Stone circle (1.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Bradley's cairn. round cairn with standing stones's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bradley's cairn. round cairn with standing stones stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Ordovician To Silurian, bedrock that formed in the Silurian. The rock here is mafic igneous-rock.