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Cairn 500m west of Newbridge Farm

England
List entry 1019510
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1019510
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.02 hectares
Grid reference
SK 28464 72263
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Cairn 500m west of Newbridge Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Derbyshire. The monument consists of a roughly circular cairn of heaped stone, characteristic of funerary monuments from the prehistoric period. Its precise date of construction and original form are consistent with the mortuary practices of upland communities in the Peak District during the third and second millennia before the present. The cairn survives as an important archaeological record of prehistoric land use and burial customs in the East Midlands.

Cairn 500m west of Newbridge Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019510. View the official record →

About this monument

Questions & answers

What is Cairn 500m west of Newbridge Farm?

Cairn 500m west of Newbridge Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Derbyshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019510.

Who is responsible for protecting Cairn 500m west of Newbridge Farm?

Cairn 500m west of Newbridge Farm 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 1019510.

What other scheduled monuments are near Cairn 500m west of Newbridge Farm?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Triple cairn, cairnfield and bole sites extending south westwards from Raven Tor (5.5 km), Cairn 600m south of Raven Tor (5.8 km), Ring cairn and cairn 750m north west of Bumper Castle (6.4 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Triple cairn, cairnfield and bole sites extending south westwards from Raven Tor
5.5 km
Cairn 600m south of Raven Tor
5.8 km
Ring cairn and cairn 750m north west of Bumper Castle
6.4 km
Cairnfield 650m north west of Bumper Castle
6.8 km
Rowsley Bridge
6.9 km
Nether Haddon medieval settlement and part of an open field system, Romano-British field system and lead mining remains, 600m south west of Haddon Hall
8.3 km
Hillcarr Sough and associated lime kiln and paved track
8.9 km
Bronze Age burial, ceremonial and settlement remains on Stanton Moor, and evidence for medieval, post-medieval and 19th to early 20th century activity
9.8 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Cairn 500m west of Newbridge Farm

Cairn 500m west of Newbridge Farm stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.

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