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Carved rock and two cairns 180m ESE of the shooting shelter, Middleton Moor Enclosure, is a Bronze Age monument located on Middleton Moor in Yorkshire. The site comprises a carved rock of archaeological interest alongside two burial cairns, characteristic features of upland Bronze Age settlement and funerary practice in northern England. The carved rock may bear evidence of cup and ring markings or other prehistoric rock art, typical of ritual or territorial markers from this period. The cairns represent communal or individual burial monuments that would have been prominent landscape features during the Bronze Age and subsequently.
Carved rock and two cairns 180m ESE of the shooting shelter, Middleton Moor Enclosure is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014179. View the official record →
Carved rock and two cairns 180m ESE of the shooting shelter, Middleton Moor Enclosure, is a Bronze Age monument located on Middleton Moor in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014179.
Carved rock and two cairns 180m ESE of the shooting shelter, Middleton Moor Enclosure 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 1014179.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Group of five carved rocks on the western ridge of Stanbury Hill (8.7 km), Rock with shallow cup and ring-markings at the western end of the ridge on Stanbury Hill (8.7 km), Rock with dense concentration of cup marks on Stanbury Hill (8.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Carved rock and two cairns 180m ESE of the shooting shelter, Middleton Moor Enclosure's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Carved rock and two cairns 180m ESE of the shooting shelter, Middleton Moor Enclosure stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.