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Palisaded settlement 125m south of North Pike cairn is a prehistoric enclosure located in Northumberland, England. The site comprises a settlement defended by a timber palisade, positioned in proximity to the Bronze Age cairn known as North Pike. The palisaded settlement dates to the prehistoric period, indicating habitation and organised land use in the Bronze Age or Iron Age landscape of northern England. Such palisaded settlements represent important evidence of defensive architecture and settlement patterns during later prehistory, though detailed excavation records for this specific site remain limited in the wider archaeological literature.
Palisaded settlement 125m south of North Pike cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020255. View the official record →
Palisaded settlement 125m south of North Pike cairn is a prehistoric enclosure located in Northumberland, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020255.
Palisaded settlement 125m south of North Pike cairn 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 1020255.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Tower house and World War II air raid shelter, 360m east of Biddlestone Home Farm (5.6 km), Camp Knowe univallate hillfort, 700m north-west of Clennell (7.3 km), Romano-British farmstead, 275m north-east of Hosedon Linn (7.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Palisaded settlement 125m south of North Pike cairn'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.
Palisaded settlement 125m south of North Pike cairn stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Silurian To Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Devonian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.