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The prehistoric landscape on Big Moor and Ramsley Moor is a Bronze Age monument complex located in Derbyshire, encompassing evidence of settlement and ritual activity across open moorland. The site contains numerous cairns, barrows, and associated archaeological features that date predominantly to the Bronze Age, reflecting patterns of land use and burial practice in the second millennium BCE. The survival of these monuments within the moorland setting provides important evidence for understanding prehistoric settlement hierarchies and the ceremonial significance accorded to elevated terrain during this period. The dispersed distribution of monuments across the landscape indicates sustained occupation and use of these upland areas over an extended timespan.
Prehistoric landscape on Big Moor and Ramsley Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004599. View the official record →
The prehistoric landscape on Big Moor and Ramsley Moor is a Bronze Age monument complex located in Derbyshire, encompassing evidence of settlement and ritual activity across open moorland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004599.
Prehistoric landscape on Big Moor and Ramsley Moor 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 1004599.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairnfield on Beeley Moor, east of Hell Bank Plantation (8.2 km), Cairnfield with enclosure, house platform and ring cairn 800m north east of Raven Tor (8.4 km), Medieval cross base 780m south west of Arkwright Plantation (8.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Prehistoric landscape on Big Moor and Ramsley Moor'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 landscape on Big Moor and Ramsley Moor stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.