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Kildale Moor round cairns is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on the North York Moors in North Yorkshire. The site comprises multiple stone cairns constructed during the Bronze Age, representing a significant concentration of burial practices typical of the period. These monuments reflect the ritual and commemorative traditions of Bronze Age communities, whose construction of substantial stone mounds indicates social organization and investment in funerary rites. The cairns remain visible as landscape features, contributing to the archaeological record of burial customs and settlement patterns in the Moors region during the second millennium BC.
Kildale Moor round cairns is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004084. View the official record →
Kildale Moor round cairns is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on the North York Moors in North Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004084.
Kildale Moor round cairns 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 1004084.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Three round barrows 60m north of Burton Howe (7.7 km), Burton Howe round barrow (7.8 km), Wayside cross known as Jenny Bradley 1000m north west of Bloworth Crossing on Greenhow Moor (8.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Kildale Moor round cairns'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.
Kildale Moor round cairns stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.