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Ring cairn on Askew Rigg is a Bronze Age burial monument located on the North York Moors near Hartoft Bridge in North Yorkshire. The site comprises a circular cairn of stacked stones surrounding a central depression, a characteristic form of ring cairn construction typical of the later Bronze Age period. Such monuments served as focal points for burial and ritual activity within prehistoric upland landscapes, and their distribution across the moorland reflects patterns of Bronze Age settlement and land use. The ring cairn remains an important archaeological record of funerary practices in the region during the second millennium before the present era.
Ring cairn on Askew Rigg, 880m south east of Hartoft Bridge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018977. View the official record →
Ring cairn on Askew Rigg is a Bronze Age burial monument located on the North York Moors near Hartoft Bridge in North Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018977.
Ring cairn on Askew Rigg, 880m south east of Hartoft Bridge 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 1018977.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including High Cross wayside cross on Kirkgate Lane, north of Appleton-le-Moors (3.6 km), Low Cross, a reused standing stone on Kirkgate Lane in Appleton-le-Moors (4 km), Nutholm cross dyke, 100m south of Appleton Mill Farm (4.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn on Askew Rigg, 880m south east of Hartoft Bridge'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 on Askew Rigg, 880m south east of Hartoft Bridge stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.