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Cairnfield on Swindon Hill is a Bronze Age cemetery site located in Northumberland, approximately 800 metres west of Hepple Whitefield Farm. The monument comprises a scatter of cairns distributed across the hilltop landscape, representing funerary practices of the second millennium BCE. Such cairnfield sites are characteristic of Bronze Age upland settlement patterns in northern Britain, where communal burial grounds were established on prominent terrain. The survival of multiple cairn structures at this location provides evidence for sustained use of the site across an extended period and contributes to understanding Bronze Age mortuary customs and territorial organisation in the Pennine region.
Cairnfield on Swindon Hill, 800m west of Hepple Whitefield Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008874. View the official record →
Cairnfield on Swindon Hill is a Bronze Age cemetery site located in Northumberland, approximately 800 metres west of Hepple Whitefield Farm. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008874.
Cairnfield on Swindon Hill, 800m west of Hepple Whitefield Farm 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 1008874.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn on Whitefield Shank, 1100m SSW of Hepple Whitefield Farm (1.3 km), 18th century water mill at Grasslees (3 km), Bastle at The Raw Farm (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairnfield on Swindon Hill, 800m west of Hepple Whitefield Farm'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 on Swindon Hill, 800m west of Hepple Whitefield Farm stands on Border Group, bedrock that formed in the Meramecian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate argillaceous rocks and limestone.