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Cairn at Rombalds Moor triangulation pillar is a Bronze Age burial cairn located on Rombalds Moor in West Yorkshire. The monument consists of a substantial mound of stones characteristic of prehistoric burial practices in the upland regions of northern England. A triangulation pillar, installed during the Ordnance Survey's twentieth-century mapping operations, now stands upon the cairn, marking it as a point of geodetic significance. The site represents an important archaeological resource documenting Bronze Age mortuary practices and the continued use of prehistoric monuments as fixed landscape features in modern surveying.
Cairn at Rombalds Moor triangulation pillar is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013472. View the official record →
Cairn at Rombalds Moor triangulation pillar is a Bronze Age burial cairn located on Rombalds Moor in West Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013472.
Cairn at Rombalds Moor triangulation pillar 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 1013472.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cup-marked rock between road and public toilets at Bracken Hall Green (6.6 km), Cup-marked bedrock near Old Glen House (6.6 km), Late prehistoric enclosed settlement in Crosley Wood, Bingley, 185m north of Scourer Bridge (6.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairn at Rombalds Moor triangulation pillar'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 at Rombalds Moor triangulation pillar stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.