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Byland Moor round cairns is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on moorland in North Yorkshire. The site comprises a group of round cairns, constructed as burial mounds from stone and earth typical of Bronze Age mortuary practices in upland northern Britain, dating approximately to the second millennium BC. These cairns represent evidence of prehistoric ritual deposition and territorial use of the moorland landscape. The monument's survival on open moorland has preserved it as an important example of Bronze Age funerary archaeology in the Yorkshire Pennines region.
Byland Moor round cairns is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003144. View the official record →
Byland Moor round cairns is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on moorland in North Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003144.
Byland Moor round cairns 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 1003144.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 150m north of Wombwell Arms (7.9 km), Two round barrows 200m NNE of Wombwell Arms (7.9 km), Round barrow 50m east of Windyridge Farm (8.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Byland Moor round cairns'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.
Byland Moor round cairns stands on Corallian Group, bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.