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Monks Graves is a prehistoric cairn cemetery located on Stockdale Moor in Cumberland, comprising a complex of funerary monuments from the Bronze Age and later periods. The site includes multiple cairns of varying forms, notably ring cairns alongside conventional burial cairns, distributed across the moorland landscape as evidence of sustained ritual and funerary activity over an extended chronological span. Associated with the cemetery is a broader cairnfield and field system that reflects Bronze Age land use and agricultural organisation in this upland region. The monument complex demonstrates the settlement and burial patterns of prehistoric communities and remains a significant archaeological resource for understanding Bronze Age funerary practice and moorland exploitation in northern England.
Monks Graves prehistoric cairn cemetery, cairnfields, field system, funerary cairns and a ring cairn on Stockdale Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018504. View the official record →
Monks Graves is a prehistoric cairn cemetery located on Stockdale Moor in Cumberland, comprising a complex of funerary monuments from the Bronze Age and later periods. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018504.
Monks Graves prehistoric cairn cemetery, cairnfields, field system, funerary cairns and a ring cairn on Stockdale Moor 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 1018504.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ring cairn on Stockdale Moor 825m west of Pearson's Fold, north of Cawfell Beck (0.7 km), Town Bank prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, ring cairn and cairnfield (1 km), Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns (1.7 km).
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