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Ring cairn 740m south east of Cook House is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire. The site consists of a cairn surrounded by a ditch or bank, a characteristic form of prehistoric funerary architecture dating to the second millennium before the present. Such ring cairns represent a tradition of monumental burial practice across upland regions of northern England during the Bronze Age period. The monument survives as an earthwork and retains archaeological significance for understanding prehistoric settlement patterns and ritual practices in the Yorkshire landscape.
Ring cairn 740m south east of Cook House is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020228. View the official record →
Ring cairn 740m south 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 1020228.
Ring cairn 740m south 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 1020228.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow on Inn Moor, 390m west of Beacon Farm (9.2 km), Round barrow 540m south west of Bridge Farm (10 km), Round barrow in Dalby Forest, known as Waitcliff Howe (10.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn 740m south 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 740m south east of Cook House stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.