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Cairnfield is a Bronze Age ring cairn located on Low Plain, Baildon Moor, near Saltaire in West Yorkshire. The monument consists of a circular arrangement of stones forming a substantial burial mound, typical of funerary monuments constructed during the Bronze Age period. The site is associated with carved rocks bearing cup-and-ring markings, demonstrating the ritual or symbolic significance of this upland location during prehistoric times. The ring cairn represents an important example of the funerary practices and monumental construction evident across the Pennine uplands during the second millennium before the Common Era.
Cairnfield including ring cairn and carved rocks on Low Plain, Baildon Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012686. View the official record →
Cairnfield is a Bronze Age ring cairn located on Low Plain, Baildon Moor, near Saltaire in West Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012686.
Cairnfield including ring cairn and carved rocks on Low Plain, Baildon Moor 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 1012686.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enclosed settlement known as `Soldier's Trench' including a cup-marked rock (1.6 km), Carved bedrock close to road north east of the public toilets on Bracken Hall Green (1.6 km), Cup-marked rock close to road south east of a small car park south east of Bracken Hall Farm. (1.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairnfield including ring cairn and carved rocks on Low Plain, Baildon Moor'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 including ring cairn and carved rocks on Low Plain, Baildon Moor 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.