Scheduled MonumentsEnglandCairn on scar above Hubberholme, 380m south east of Slades Swallow Hole

Cairn on scar above Hubberholme, 380m south east of Slades Swallow Hole

England
List entry 1014351
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1014351
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.04 hectares
Grid reference
SD 93012 78828
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Cairn on Scar above Hubberholme is a Bronze Age burial monument located in the Pennine landscape of Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire. The site comprises a stone cairn situated on elevated moorland approximately 380 metres south-east of Slades Swallow Hole, positioned at a considerable altitude typical of prehistoric funerary monuments in this region. Such cairns represent the burial practices of Bronze Age communities and serve as archaeological evidence of settlement patterns and land use during the second millennium BC. The monument survives as a physical and archaeological resource within the wider landscape of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments characteristic of the Yorkshire uplands.

Cairn on scar above Hubberholme, 380m south east of Slades Swallow Hole is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014351. View the official record →

About this monument

Questions & answers

What is Cairn on scar above Hubberholme, 380m south east of Slades Swallow Hole?

Cairn on Scar above Hubberholme is a Bronze Age burial monument located in the Pennine landscape of Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014351.

Who is responsible for protecting Cairn on scar above Hubberholme, 380m south east of Slades Swallow Hole?

Cairn on scar above Hubberholme, 380m south east of Slades Swallow Hole 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 1014351.

What other scheduled monuments are near Cairn on scar above Hubberholme, 380m south east of Slades Swallow Hole?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Shorn medieval boundary cross and bowl barrow (5.3 km), Tor Dike linear earthwork (6 km), Bowl barrow 120m north of Tor Dike on Little Hunters Sleets (6.4 km).

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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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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Cairn on scar above Hubberholme, 380m south east of Slades Swallow Hole

Cairn on scar above Hubberholme, 380m south east of Slades Swallow Hole stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.

The wider landscape

Around Cairn on scar above Hubberholme, 380m south east of Slades Swallow Hole

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