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Ring cairn on Force Ing is a Bronze Age burial monument situated on moorland west of Whitfield Gill in Yorkshire. The structure comprises a ring of stones surrounding a central burial deposit, a form characteristic of cairns constructed during the Bronze Age period. Such ring cairns typically served as communal or individual burial places and represent significant funerary practices of their era. The monument's survival on the upland landscape provides archaeological evidence of Bronze Age settlement and land use patterns in the Yorkshire moorlands.
Ring cairn on Force Ing, west of Whitfield Gill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010538. View the official record →
Ring cairn on Force Ing is a Bronze Age burial monument situated on moorland west of Whitfield Gill in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010538.
Ring cairn on Force Ing, west of Whitfield Gill 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 1010538.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bow Bridge 90m east of Bowbridge Hill (1.5 km), Ring cairn 580m west of Askrigg church (1.9 km), Bainbridge Roman fort and annexe (2.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn on Force Ing, west of Whitfield Gill'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 Force Ing, west of Whitfield Gill stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.