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Head Road round cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire, England. The site consists of a circular mound of stone and earth characteristic of round cairns from the second millennium BCE, a period when such structures served as focal points for communal and individual burial practices across upland regions of northern England. The cairn's survival into the modern period provides archaeological evidence of Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns in the Yorkshire landscape. As a scheduled ancient monument, it remains an important record of prehistoric funerary traditions in the region.
Head Road round cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004058. View the official record →
Head Road round cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004058.
Head Road round 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 1004058.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two prehistoric linear boundaries with associated features, 680m ESE and 880m NNE of Pexton Moor Farm (9.5 km), Round barrow 650m north west of St Hilda's Church, Ellerburn (9.6 km), Warrening enclosure 975m north east of High Paper Mill Farm (9.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Head Road round 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.
Head Road round cairn stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.