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Ring cairn 260m east of Cook House is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire. The site comprises a ring cairn, a form of funerary structure characteristic of the Bronze Age, constructed from stone and positioned to create a distinctive circular or near-circular arrangement. Ring cairns of this type typically date to the mid-to-late Bronze Age period and served as burial or ceremonial sites for communities in prehistoric northern England. The monument remains an important archaeological record of Bronze Age burial practices and settlement patterns in the Yorkshire landscape.
Ring cairn 260m east of Cook House is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019700. View the official record →
Ring cairn 260m east of Cook House is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019700.
Ring cairn 260m east of Cook House 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 1019700.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 920m south west of Silpho Brow Farm (8.7 km), Round barrow on Suffield Moor, 750m south of Silpho Brow Farm (8.8 km), Round cairn on Inn Moor, 290m south west of Beacon Farm (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn 260m east of Cook House'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.
Ring cairn 260m east of Cook House stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.