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Commondale Moor cairn cemetery is a Bronze Age burial site located on the North York Moors in Yorkshire. The cemetery comprises multiple cairns and burial mounds distributed across the moorland, representing a significant ritual landscape of the Bronze Age period. These monuments reflect the funerary practices and settlement patterns of prehistoric communities inhabiting the upland regions of northern England during the second millennium BCE. The site's designation as a scheduled monument recognises its archaeological importance as evidence of Bronze Age mortuary behaviour and the use of moorland environments in antiquity.
Commondale Moor cairn cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004075. View the official record →
Commondale Moor cairn cemetery is a Bronze Age burial site located on the North York Moors in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004075.
Commondale Moor cairn cemetery 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 1004075.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including High Stone Dike, southern of two cross dykes on Castleton Rigg (7.7 km), Three round barrows 60m north of Burton Howe (8.9 km), Burton Howe round barrow (9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Commondale Moor cairn cemetery'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.
Commondale Moor cairn cemetery stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.