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Ring cairn on Askham Fell is a Bronze Age burial monument situated on the fell near Askham in Westmorland. The structure comprises a circular cairn of piled stones with four adjacent standing stones positioned around or near the ring, forming a distinctive ceremonial or funerary arrangement characteristic of upland Bronze Age practice in northern England. The monument represents an important example of prehistoric ritual landscape use in the Pennine region, where such cairns and stone settings were commonly erected between approximately 2000 and 1000 BC. The site's remote fell-top location and surviving stone configuration preserve evidence of Bronze Age burial practices and territorial markers in what is now the Lake District landscape.
Ring cairn on Askham Fell and four adjacent stones is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007359. View the official record →
Ring cairn on Askham Fell is a Bronze Age burial monument situated on the fell near Askham in Westmorland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007359.
Ring cairn on Askham Fell and four adjacent stones 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 1007359.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round cairn on Burn Banks (5.7 km), Enclosure containing four clearance cairns and a stone bank west of Four Stones Hill (5.8 km), Round cairn west of enclosure on Four Stones Hill (5.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn on Askham Fell and four adjacent stones'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 Askham Fell and four adjacent stones stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.