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Cairnfield and embanked stone circle 550m east of Barbrook Reservoir is a Bronze Age ceremonial and funerary monument located on the moorlands of Derbyshire. The site comprises a stone circle enclosed by an external bank, a form characteristic of later Bronze Age ritual monuments in the Peak District, alongside associated cairns that served burial functions. The embanked configuration suggests a phase of monument construction or modification during the middle to later Bronze Age, when such enclosed ritual spaces were established across upland regions of northern England. The monument survives as an important archaeological record of prehistoric ceremonial practice and settlement patterns on the Derbyshire moors.
Cairnfield and embanked stone circle 550m east of Barbrook Reservoir is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020301. View the official record →
Cairnfield and embanked stone circle 550m east of Barbrook Reservoir is a Bronze Age ceremonial and funerary monument located on the moorlands of Derbyshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020301.
Cairnfield and embanked stone circle 550m east of Barbrook Reservoir 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 1020301.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round cairn on Harland Edge (9.1 km), Two cairns on Beeley Moor, east of Hell Bank Plantation (9.1 km), Cairn on Harland Edge (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairnfield and embanked stone circle 550m east of Barbrook Reservoir's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Cairnfield and embanked stone circle 550m east of Barbrook Reservoir 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.