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Little Grassoms is a Bronze Age field system located on Bootle Fell in Cumberland, comprising two cairnfields and six funerary cairns that represent a coherent landscape of prehistoric settlement and burial activity. The monument dates to the Bronze Age period and demonstrates the agricultural organisation and funerary practices of upland communities during this era. The cairnfields indicate arable or pastoral land use, whilst the associated funerary cairns reflect the ritual and commemorative practices of the contemporary population. The site's survival on the fell landscape provides archaeological evidence for the Bronze Age exploitation and organisation of marginal upland terrain in northern England.
Little Grassoms prehistoric field system, two cairnfields and six funerary cairns on Bootle Fell is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019077. View the official record →
Little Grassoms is a Bronze Age field system located on Bootle Fell in Cumberland, comprising two cairnfields and six funerary cairns that represent a coherent landscape of prehistoric settlement and burial activity. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019077.
Little Grassoms prehistoric field system, two cairnfields and six funerary cairns on Bootle Fell 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 1019077.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Great Grassoms prehistoric cairnfield, four funerary cairns, two medieval dispersed settlements and associated field systems on Bootle Fell (0.5 km), Prehistoric cairnfields, funerary cairns, ring cairns, hut circles, field systems and a medieval enclosed field system on Bootle Fell (1.2 km), Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, 230m south east of Swinside (3.3 km).
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