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Bootle Fell is a complex archaeological landscape in Cumberland containing multiple categories of prehistoric and medieval monuments. The site comprises funerary cairns and ring cairns of Bronze Age date, alongside earlier prehistoric cairnfields, demonstrating sustained use of the upland during the third and second millennia BCE. Hut circles scattered across the fell indicate prehistoric settlement and domestic occupation of the landscape. The field systems present on the site range from prehistoric agricultural divisions to a more formally defined medieval enclosed field system, revealing the continuity and evolution of land management practices across several millennia on this upland terrain.
Prehistoric cairnfields, funerary cairns, ring cairns, hut circles, field systems and a medieval enclosed field system on Bootle Fell is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017066. View the official record →
Bootle Fell is a complex archaeological landscape in Cumberland containing multiple categories of prehistoric and medieval monuments. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017066.
Prehistoric cairnfields, funerary cairns, ring cairns, hut circles, field systems and a medieval enclosed field system on Bootle Fell 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 1017066.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Great Grassoms prehistoric cairnfield, four funerary cairns, two medieval dispersed settlements and associated field systems on Bootle Fell (0.7 km), Little Grassoms prehistoric field system, two cairnfields and six funerary cairns on Bootle Fell (1.2 km), Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, 230m south east of Swinside (4.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Prehistoric cairnfields, funerary cairns, ring cairns, hut circles, field systems and a medieval enclosed field system on Bootle Fell'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.
Prehistoric cairnfields, funerary cairns, ring cairns, hut circles, field systems and a medieval enclosed field system on Bootle Fell stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is mafic lava.