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The ring cairn and round cairn on Turf Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Northumberland, England. The site comprises two distinct cairn structures, with the ring cairn representing a characteristic ceremonial or funerary form of the Bronze Age period. Such monuments typically contained cremated or inhumed remains and reflect the funerary practices of prehistoric communities in northern Britain during the second millennium BC. The preservation of both structures on Turf Hill provides archaeological evidence for Bronze Age settlement patterns and mortuary behaviour in Northumberland.
Ring cairn and round cairn on Turf Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017725. View the official record →
The ring cairn and round cairn on Turf Hill is a Bronze Age burial 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).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn and round cairn on Turf Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Ring cairn and round cairn on Turf Hill stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Silurian To Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Devonian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.