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Cairn 320m WNW of Old Stell Crag is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Northumberland. The site consists of a cairn, a mound of stones constructed as a funerary structure typical of the Bronze Age period, when such monuments served as visible markers for elite or communal burials. The cairn's precise dimensions and current condition are recorded in the Scheduled Monument records associated with its National Heritage List for England designation. Such monuments are significant for understanding prehistoric settlement patterns, burial practices, and territorial organisation in upland Northumberland during the second millennium BCE.
Cairn 320m WNW of Old Stell Crag is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009356. View the official record →
Cairn 320m WNW of Old Stell Crag is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Northumberland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009356.
Cairn 320m WNW of Old Stell Crag 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 1009356.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Simonside Cairn 670m west-north-west of Old Stell Crag (0.3 km), Cairn 1km west-north-west of Old Stell Crag (0.7 km), Bastle 150m south west of Morrelhirst (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairn 320m WNW of Old Stell Crag'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.
Cairn 320m WNW of Old Stell Crag stands on Border Group, bedrock that formed in the Meramecian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate argillaceous rocks and limestone.