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Pike Howe round cairn

England
List entry 1018986
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1018986
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.04 hectares
Grid reference
SE 69203 96162
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Pike Howe is a Bronze Age round cairn situated in Yorkshire, England. The monument consists of a mound of stones constructed as a burial structure, typical of funerary practices during the Bronze Age period. Round cairns of this type served as communal or individual burial monuments and represent an important category of prehistoric ritual landscape archaeology in northern England. The site's preservation as a designated heritage monument reflects its archaeological significance as evidence of Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns in Yorkshire.

Pike Howe round cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018986. View the official record →

About this monument

Questions & answers

What is Pike Howe round cairn?

Pike Howe is a Bronze Age round cairn situated in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018986.

Who is responsible for protecting Pike Howe round cairn?

Pike Howe round 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 1018986.

What other scheduled monuments are near Pike Howe round cairn?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Four round barrows one 400m and three 540m east of Grouse Hall (5.5 km), Douthwaite pillow mounds (5.7 km), Potato Nab round barrow 1020m south west of Penny Holme (7.8 km).

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Overview
An interactive map of the location with every monument and battle plotted, and a plain-language history built only from what the record holds.
Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
Laser-scanned terrain that reveals earthworks hidden under fields and woodland, with likely features flagged.
Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
Legal
The protected sites nearby and the metal-detecting, access and treasure laws that apply to this ground.
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Target Zones
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Four round barrows one 400m and three 540m east of Grouse Hall
5.5 km
Douthwaite pillow mounds
5.7 km
Potato Nab round barrow 1020m south west of Penny Holme
7.8 km
Aldergate Bank round barrow, 875m north west of Wether Cote
7.8 km
Blackpark medieval farmstead 140m south of Blackpark Lodge
8.1 km
High Cross wayside cross on Kirkgate Lane, north of Appleton-le-Moors
8.7 km
Low Cross, a reused standing stone on Kirkgate Lane in Appleton-le-Moors
9 km
Neville Castle, 430m north west of the parish church
9.2 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Pike Howe round cairn

Pike Howe round cairn stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.

The wider landscape

Around Pike Howe round cairn

Star CarrArchaeological site · ~20.1 miles
Domesday entry for Gillamoor, Yorkshire →
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