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Low Bride Stones is a Bronze Age cairn located in Yorkshire, England. The monument consists of a stone burial mound that reflects the funerary practices of the Bronze Age period, when such cairns served as communal or individual burial sites across the upland regions of northern England. The site represents an important example of the ritual landscape development that characterised the Bronze Age occupation of Yorkshire's moorlands, where such monuments often clustered in distinctive groups. The physical remains of the cairn, despite any subsequent degradation, continue to provide archaeological evidence of prehistoric settlement patterns and burial customs in this region.
Low Bride Stones is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004893. View the official record →
Low Bride Stones is a Bronze Age cairn located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004893.
Low Bride Stones 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 1004893.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Simon Howe: a round cairn on Goathland Moor, two associated round barrows, a standing stone and a stone alignment (6.8 km), Cairnfield on Howl Moor 510m south of Wheeldale Lodge, including an unenclosed hut circle settlement, field system and round burial cairns (7.7 km), Goathland Roman road, on Wheeldale Moor (7.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Low Bride Stones'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.
Low Bride Stones stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.