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Cairn 500m NNW of Archerton is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon, England. The site consists of a cairn, a mound constructed from stone rather than earth, which would have served as a marker for one or more burials dating to the Bronze Age period. Such cairns are characteristic of funerary practices in south-west England during the second millennium BCE, when communities marked their dead with substantial stone monuments. The monument remains an important archaeological record of Bronze Age mortuary customs and settlement patterns in the Devon landscape.
Cairn 500m NNW of Archerton is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021331. View the official record →
Cairn 500m NNW of Archerton is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021331.
Cairn 500m NNW of Archerton 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 1021331.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Siward's or Nun's Cross (10.1 km), Two stone hut circles 810m west of Siward's or Nun's Cross forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement (10.3 km), Stone hut circle 770m west of Siward's or Nun's Cross forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement (10.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairn 500m NNW of Archerton'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 500m NNW of Archerton stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.