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Cairnfield is a Bronze Age cairn located approximately 500 metres north-east of Bumper Castle in Yorkshire. The monument consists of a stone burial mound characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice in northern England, dating to the second millennium BCE. The site forms part of the Bronze Age landscape of the Pennine uplands, where such cairns often mark the graves of individuals of status within prehistoric communities. Its proximity to Bumper Castle, a later medieval fortification, demonstrates the long sequence of human activity and land use in this region of Yorkshire.
Cairnfield 500m north east of Bumper Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009358. View the official record →
Cairnfield is a Bronze Age cairn located approximately 500 metres north-east of Bumper Castle in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009358.
Cairnfield 500m north east of Bumper Castle 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 1009358.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rievaulx Abbey Cistercian monastery: inner and outer precinct, water-management works, agricultural features, enclosures and ancillary buildings (8.4 km), Griff Cross, wayside cross 800m NNE of Griff Farm on the road from Helmsley to Rievaulx (9 km), Medieval lordly residence immediately west of Church Farm (9.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairnfield 500m north east of Bumper Castle'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.
Cairnfield 500m north east of Bumper Castle stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.