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Cairn with an oval bank on Midgley Moor is a Bronze Age burial monument located in the Pennine uplands of West Yorkshire, situated approximately 430 metres north east of Upper Han Royd. The monument comprises a stone cairn surrounded by an oval earthen bank, a characteristic form of Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary construction found across upland Britain. Such monuments typically contained inhumed or cremated human remains and served as focal points for ritual activity and territorial assertion during prehistory. The site's location on the moorland reflects the Bronze Age preference for upland burial sites in Yorkshire, and its survival as an upstanding earthwork demonstrates the relative continuity of landscape use across the Pennine region.
Cairn with an oval bank on Midgley Moor, 430m north east of Upper Han Royd is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018812. View the official record →
Cairn with an oval bank on Midgley Moor is a Bronze Age burial monument located in the Pennine uplands of West Yorkshire, situated approximately 430 metres north east of Upper Han Royd. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018812.
Cairn with an oval bank on Midgley Moor, 430m north east of Upper Han Royd 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 1018812.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ring cairn on Midgley Moor, 360m north east of Upper Han Royd (0.1 km), Cairn on Midgley Moor, 400m north east of Upper Han Royd (0.2 km), Castle Hill motte castle 270m north east of Rosemary Hall (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairn with an oval bank on Midgley Moor, 430m north east of Upper Han Royd's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Cairn with an oval bank on Midgley Moor, 430m north east of Upper Han Royd stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.