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Cairns on Foul Scrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Lancashire. The site comprises a group of burial cairns situated on high moorland, typical of the upland funerary practices of the second millennium BCE. Such cairn groups served as communal or family burial places and are commonly found across northern England's moorland regions. The monument survives as earthwork remains and represents an important record of Bronze Age settlement patterns and mortuary behaviour in the Pennine uplands.
Cairns on Foul Scrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007247. View the official record →
Cairns on Foul Scrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Lancashire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007247.
Cairns on Foul Scrow 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 1007247.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Coniston copper mines (1 km), Yewdale lime kiln 380m south west of Low Yewdale (2 km), Cairns and enclosure on The Rigg, Banishead (2.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairns on Foul Scrow'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.
Cairns on Foul Scrow stands on Caradoc Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Caradocian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.