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Platform cairn south of Hill Rake

England
List entry 1011208
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1011208
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.08 hectares
Grid reference
SK 17311 80320
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Platform cairn south of Hill Rake is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Derbyshire. The structure consists of a platform cairn, a form of funerary monument constructed from accumulated stone, characteristic of upland burial practices in the Peak District during the prehistoric period. Such monuments typically functioned as communal or individual burial sites and represent an important phase of mortuary ritual and territorial demarcation in early British prehistory. The site's location in the Derbyshire uplands reflects the Bronze Age and earlier preference for elevated positions for monumental burials, which would have been visible landmarks across the landscape.

Platform cairn south of Hill Rake is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011208. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Platform cairn south of Hill Rake?

Platform cairn south of Hill Rake is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Derbyshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011208.

Who is responsible for protecting Platform cairn south of Hill Rake?

Platform cairn south of Hill Rake 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 1011208.

What other scheduled monuments are near Platform cairn south of Hill Rake?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow west of Castlegate Lane (7.6 km), Lees and Dove Rakes, Booth Lee Pipes and Sterndale Sough (7.8 km), High Field hlaew (8 km).

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Monuments
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Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
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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
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Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Bowl barrow west of Castlegate Lane
7.6 km
Lees and Dove Rakes, Booth Lee Pipes and Sterndale Sough
7.8 km
High Field hlaew
8 km
White Cliff bowl barrow
8.2 km
Putwell Hill bowl barrow
8.5 km
Putwell Hill Mine
8.6 km
Bowl barrow known as Priestcliffe Low, 200m west of Low End Farm
9.2 km
Fin Cop promontory fort, bowl barrow and eighteenth century lime kiln with associated quarry
9.4 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Platform cairn south of Hill Rake

Platform cairn south of Hill Rake stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.

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