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Cairn 330m north of Woodhead on Harden Moor is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire, England. The site consists of a stone cairn, a characteristic burial form of the Bronze Age period, constructed to mark and contain funerary deposits. Its positioning on Harden Moor reflects the typical upland location favored for such monuments during the second millennium BCE. The cairn represents an important archaeological record of Bronze Age funerary practice and settlement patterns in the Yorkshire moorlands.
Cairn 330m north of Woodhead on Harden Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018239. View the official record →
Cairn 330m north of Woodhead on Harden Moor is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018239.
Cairn 330m north of Woodhead on Harden Moor 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 1018239.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn 290m north of Woodhead on Harden Moor (0.1 km), Ring cairn 310m north of Woodhead on Harden Moor (0.1 km), Late prehistoric enclosed settlement known as Catstones Ring on Catstones Hill (1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairn 330m north of Woodhead on Harden Moor'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 330m north of Woodhead on Harden Moor stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.