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Monks Graves is a Bronze Age funerary and settlement complex located on Stockdale Moor in Cumberland, England. The site comprises a cemetery of prehistoric cairns, including a ring cairn and several funerary cairns, alongside associated cairnfields and field systems that attest to contemporary agricultural activity. Dating to the Bronze Age period, the monument represents a significant landscape of ritual and domestic use, with the burial cairns indicating established patterns of community commemoration and land organisation. The physical remains, preserved as earthworks across the moorland, provide archaeological evidence for settlement patterns and funerary practices characteristic of the Bronze Age in the upland regions of 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 Bronze Age funerary and settlement complex located on Stockdale Moor in Cumberland, England. 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).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Monks Graves prehistoric cairn cemetery, cairnfields, field system, funerary cairns and a ring cairn on Stockdale Moor'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.
Monks Graves prehistoric cairn cemetery, cairnfields, field system, funerary cairns and a ring cairn on Stockdale Moor stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Ordovician To Silurian, bedrock that formed in the Silurian. The rock here is felsic-rock.