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Ring cairn known as the Ring of Stones on Ringstone Edge Moor is a Bronze Age burial monument located on moorland in Yorkshire, approximately 800 metres south of Upper Gosling Royd. The structure comprises a circular arrangement of stones forming a cairn, characteristic of funerary monuments constructed during the Bronze Age period. Such ring cairns typically served as burial sites and may have functioned as territorial or ceremonial markers within the Bronze Age landscape. The monument remains an important archaeological witness to prehistoric funerary practices and settlement patterns in the Pennine uplands.
Ring cairn known as the Ring of Stones on Ringstone Edge Moor, 800m south of Upper Gosling Royd is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018559. View the official record →
Ring cairn known as the Ring of Stones on Ringstone Edge Moor is a Bronze Age burial monument located on moorland in Yorkshire, approximately 800 metres south of Upper Gosling Royd. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018559.
Ring cairn known as the Ring of Stones on Ringstone Edge Moor, 800m south of Upper Gosling Royd 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 1018559.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow known as Beacon Hill (0.4 km), Cairnfield on Ringstone Edge Moor, 240m south west of Clay House (0.6 km), Meg Dike late prehistoric enclosed settlement (0.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn known as the Ring of Stones on Ringstone Edge Moor, 800m south of Upper Gosling Royd'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 known as the Ring of Stones on Ringstone Edge Moor, 800m south of Upper Gosling Royd stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.