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Ring cairn on Bamford Moor is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on the high moorland of the Peak District in Derbyshire. The structure consists of a circular arrangement of stones forming a ring, characteristic of cairn burials from the second millennium BC. The site represents an important example of ritual landscape use during the Bronze Age, when such monuments were commonly constructed across upland areas of Britain. As a scheduled ancient monument, the ring cairn contributes to the archaeological record of funerary practices and settlement patterns in this region during prehistory.
Ring cairn on Bamford Moor, 900m north east of Lydgate Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017836. View the official record →
Ring cairn on Bamford Moor is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on the high moorland of the Peak District in Derbyshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017836.
Ring cairn on Bamford Moor, 900m north east of Lydgate Farm 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 1017836.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Little Pasture Mine (8 km), Grindleford Bridge (8.3 km), Long Low bowl barrow (8.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn on Bamford Moor, 900m north east of Lydgate Farm'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 Bamford Moor, 900m north east of Lydgate Farm stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.