Bronze Age cairnfield on north west slopes of Hart Heugh, 900m south west of Wooler Common

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History & significance

Hart Heugh cairnfield is a Bronze Age burial monument comprising a cluster of stone cairns situated on the north-western slopes of Hart Heugh in Northumberland, approximately nine hundred metres south-west of Wooler Common. The site consists of multiple burial cairns, typical of Bronze Age funerary practice in the upland regions of northern England, where such monuments were constructed as communal or family burial places. The cairnfield represents settlement and land-use patterns in the Bronze Age uplands, reflecting the pastoral economy and social organisation of prehistoric Northumbrian communities. The scattered arrangement of the cairns across the sloping terrain is characteristic of Bronze Age cairnfield sites distributed across the Cheviot hills and surrounding moorland.

Bronze Age cairnfield on north west slopes of Hart Heugh, 900m south west of Wooler Common is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018376. View the official record →

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