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Little Grassoms is a Bronze Age ceremonial and agricultural landscape situated on Bootle Fell in Cumberland, comprising two cairnfields and six funerary cairns that represent a significant concentration of prehistoric activity. The monument dates to the Bronze Age and demonstrates the organised use of upland terrain for both burial practices and field management during this period. The cairnfields indicate systematic cultivation patterns characteristic of later prehistoric agriculture, whilst the discrete funerary cairns reflect contemporary burial customs and social practices. Together, the components of this monument provide evidence for the sustained occupation and exploitation of Bootle Fell during the Bronze Age.
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 ceremonial and agricultural landscape situated on Bootle Fell in Cumberland, comprising two cairnfields and six funerary cairns that represent a significant concentration of prehistoric 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).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Little Grassoms prehistoric field system, two cairnfields and six funerary cairns on Bootle Fell'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.
Little Grassoms prehistoric field system, two cairnfields and six funerary cairns on Bootle Fell stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is mafic lava.