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Great Ayton Moor cairn cemetery is a Bronze Age funerary and ritual landscape located in North Yorkshire. The site comprises a scattered distribution of burial cairns and associated earthworks typical of upland Bronze Age settlement patterns in the North York Moors region. These monuments represent evidence of sustained ritual and mortuary practice during the later second millennium BC, when such moor-edge locations served as focal points for Bronze Age communities. The cairn cemetery demonstrates the ceremonial importance of elevated moorland terrain in prehistoric Yorkshire and contributes to understanding of Bronze Age funerary architecture and land use in northern England.
Great Ayton Moor cairn cemetery and earthworks is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004102. View the official record →
Great Ayton Moor cairn cemetery is a Bronze Age funerary and ritual landscape located in North Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004102.
Great Ayton Moor cairn cemetery and earthworks 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 1004102.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cross dyke 850m WSW of Baysdale Farm (5.1 km), Wayside cross known as Baysdale Cross on Middle Head Intake 1000m south west of Baysdale Abbey (6.4 km), Round barrow at Tidy Brown Hill (6.6 km).
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