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Cairns and hut circles at the junction of River Calder and Whoap Beck

England

List entry 1007236

Nation

England

The designation

Reference

List entry 1007236

Authority

Historic England (NHLE)

Status

Scheduled Monument

Scheduled area

1.05 hectares

Grid reference

NY 08319 13145, NY 08250 13111, NY 08584 13003

Boundary

Scheduled area

Overview

History & significance

Cairns and hut circles at the junction of River Calder and Whoap Beck is a Bronze Age settlement site located in Cumberland in the English Lake District region. The monument comprises a cluster of archaeological features including burial cairns and the remains of domestic structures in the form of hut circles, indicative of sustained prehistoric occupation in this upland landscape. The site dates to the Bronze Age period, when such settlements representing pastoral and agricultural communities were established in the higher elevations of northern England. The physical remains, visible as earthwork features across the terrain, provide evidence of the organisation and settlement patterns of Bronze Age communities in this area.

Cairns and hut circles at the junction of River Calder and Whoap Beck is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007236. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Cairns and hut circles at the junction of River Calder and Whoap Beck?

Cairns and hut circles at the junction of River Calder and Whoap Beck is a Bronze Age settlement site located in Cumberland in the English Lake District region. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007236.

Who is responsible for protecting Cairns and hut circles at the junction of River Calder and Whoap Beck?

Cairns and hut circles at the junction of River Calder and Whoap Beck 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 1007236.

What other scheduled monuments are near Cairns and hut circles at the junction of River Calder and Whoap Beck?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Lank Rigg round cairn (1.6 km), Town Bank prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, ring cairn and cairnfield (3.4 km), Monk's Bridge 320m south east of Farthwaite (3.5 km).

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Overview

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Monuments

The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.

Battlefields

The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.

Roman Britain

The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.

Domesday

The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.

Civil War

The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.

Geology

The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.

LiDAR

Laser-scanned terrain that reveals earthworks hidden under fields and woodland, with likely features flagged.

Local Names

What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.

Historical Maps

Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.

Literature

The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.

Legal

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Target Zones

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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Lank Rigg round cairn

1.6 km

Town Bank prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, ring cairn and cairnfield

3.4 km

Monk's Bridge 320m south east of Farthwaite

3.5 km

Monks Graves prehistoric cairn cemetery, cairnfields, field system, funerary cairns and a ring cairn on Stockdale Moor

3.6 km

Tongue How prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, cemetery and cairnfield, Romano-British farmstead, shieling and lynchets

3.7 km

Ring cairn on Stockdale Moor 825m west of Pearson's Fold, north of Cawfell Beck

4.1 km

Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns

5.2 km

Yokerill Hows, group of seven cairns

6.3 km

The ground beneath

The bedrock under Cairns and hut circles at the junction of River Calder and Whoap Beck

Cairns and hut circles at the junction of River Calder and Whoap Beck stands on Ordovician Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

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