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Long barrow north of Skelmore Heads is a Neolithic burial monument located near Woodside Farm in Lancashire. The site represents the early farming communities of the fourth and third millennia before Christ who constructed such elongated earthen mounds across Britain. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument, though like many such structures its original dimensions and construction detail have been subject to modification and erosion over millennia. As a designated heritage asset, it forms part of the archaeological record of prehistoric Lancashire and contributes to understanding of Neolithic funerary practices in northern England.
Long barrow north of Skelmore Heads, 300m NE of Woodside Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013962. View the official record →
Long barrow north of Skelmore Heads is a Neolithic burial monument located near Woodside Farm in Lancashire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013962.
Long barrow north of Skelmore Heads, 300m NE of Woodside Farm 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 1013962.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Romano-British enclosed hut circle settlement 660m south east of Holme Bank (2 km), Concentric stone circle on Birkrigg Common (2.3 km), Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure west of Scales Haggs, 300m NNE of Scales Green Farm (2.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Long barrow north of Skelmore Heads, 300m NE of Woodside Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Long barrow north of Skelmore Heads, 300m NE of Woodside Farm stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.