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Ring cairn and round cairn on Turf Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Northumberland, England. The site comprises two distinct cairn structures: a ring cairn, characterised by a circular rubble bank surrounding a central hollow, and a round cairn of more conventional domed form. Both monuments are typical of funerary practices employed during the Bronze Age, when such earthen and stone structures served as burial places and territorial markers within the landscape. The site represents the remains of ritual and mortuary activity spanning the early to middle Bronze Age period on the Northumberland uplands.
Ring cairn and round cairn on Turf Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017725. View the official record →
Ring cairn and round cairn on Turf Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Northumberland, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017725.
Ring cairn and round cairn on Turf Hill 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 1017725.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round cairn, 300m south east of Fiddlers Wood (9 km), Bremenium Roman station, High Rochester (9.4 km), Petty Knowes Roman Cemetery and Length of Dere Street Roman Road, Rochester (9.7 km).
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