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Heathwaite Fell is a scheduled ancient monument in Lancashire comprising a complex of prehistoric and medieval settlement remains. The site contains Bronze Age hut circles, cairnfields, and funerary cairns indicating sustained occupation and land use during the second millennium BCE, alongside later medieval features including a dispersed settlement pattern, associated field systems, and kilns. The combination of prehistoric ceremonial and domestic structures with medieval agricultural infrastructure demonstrates long-term continuity of human activity on this upland landscape. The monument is significant for illustrating patterns of settlement, burial practice, and land management across multiple periods of prehistory and the medieval period.
Prehistoric hut circle settlements, enclosure, cairnfields, funerary cairns, a dispersed medieval settlement, field system and kilns on Heathwaite Fell is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020802. View the official record →
Heathwaite Fell is a scheduled ancient monument in Lancashire comprising a complex of prehistoric and medieval settlement remains.
Prehistoric hut circle settlements, enclosure, cairnfields, funerary cairns, a dispersed medieval settlement, field system and kilns on Heathwaite 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 1020802.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Conscientious Objectors’ Stone, 140m south east of Green Moor farmhouse (1.5 km), Two ring cairns on Gawthwaite Moor (2.5 km), Nibthwaite furnace (3.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Prehistoric hut circle settlements, enclosure, cairnfields, funerary cairns, a dispersed medieval settlement, field system and kilns on Heathwaite 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 hut circle settlements, enclosure, cairnfields, funerary cairns, a dispersed medieval settlement, field system and kilns on Heathwaite Fell stands on Wenlock Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.