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Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Westmorland, England. The site consists of a circular cairn of stacked stones with a distinctive ring form, typical of funerary monuments constructed during the Bronze Age period, approximately 2000 to 800 BCE. The monument sits within the archaeological landscape of the Westmorland uplands, an area rich in prehistoric burial remains. Such ring cairns represent important evidence of Bronze Age ritual practices and settlement patterns in the Lake District region.
Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007364. View the official record →
Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Westmorland, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007364.
Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation 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 1007364.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Shap Premonstratensian Abbey, including the precinct wall, abbey mill and mill race, and two fishponds (4 km), Medieval dyke system and shieling west of Shap Abbey (4.2 km), Skellaw Hill bowl barrow (4.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation'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 Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.