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Enclosed settlement on east slope of Brands Hill, 900m north of Cowboy's Cairn is a prehistoric settlement site located in Northumberland. The site comprises an enclosed settlement of Iron Age date, featuring the remains of boundary works and structural evidence characteristic of settlements from this period in northern England. The enclosure demonstrates the domestic organisation and land use patterns typical of Iron Age communities in the region, reflecting the settlement hierarchy and defensive considerations of Iron Age society in the north.
Enclosed settlement on east slope of Brands Hill, 900m north of Cowboy's Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015633. View the official record →
Enclosed settlement on east slope of Brands Hill, 900m north of Cowboy's Cairn is a prehistoric settlement site located in Northumberland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015633.
Enclosed settlement on east slope of Brands Hill, 900m north of Cowboy's Cairn 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 1015633.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hunt Law round barrow and two round barrows 1000ft (300m) to N of it (7.4 km), Knock Hill promontory camp (7.5 km), Greaves Ash camp (7.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Enclosed settlement on east slope of Brands Hill, 900m north of Cowboy's Cairn'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.
Enclosed settlement on east slope of Brands Hill, 900m north of Cowboy's Cairn stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Silurian To Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Devonian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.