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Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield is a Bronze Age monument complex located in Cumberland, England, comprising a dispersed group of burial cairns situated on moorland near Woodend Bridge. The site includes a substantial funerary cairn positioned approximately 400 metres south-east of Woodend Bridge, which forms part of the wider cairnfield distribution characteristic of upland Bronze Age burial practices in the region. The individual cairns are constructed from stone and represent communal or family burial monuments typical of the second millennium BCE. This monument type, scattered across upland terrain, reflects the settlement and mortuary practices of Bronze Age communities utilising marginal pastoral landscapes in northern England.
Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend Bridge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020201. View the official record →
Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield is a Bronze Age monument complex located in Cumberland, England, comprising a dispersed group of burial cairns situated on moorland near Woodend Bridge. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020201.
Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend Bridge 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 1020201.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Thwaites Fell immediately north of Hodgewife Well (6.1 km), Prehistoric cairnfield, ring cairn, hut circle and field system on Thwaites Fell 670m east of Hodgewife Well (6.3 km), Three prehistoric cairnfields and an associated field system on Corney Fell, 1.2km south east of High Corney (6.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend Bridge'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.
Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend Bridge stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is mafic lava.