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Ring cairn on Slipper Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Lancashire. The site consists of a circular or sub-circular cairn of stones arranged in a ring formation, a characteristic burial structure of the Bronze Age period. Such ring cairns typically date from the second millennium BC and served as communal or individual burial monuments, often associated with cremation deposits. The monument survives as an upstanding earthwork and stone arrangement, representing an important example of prehistoric funerary practice in the region.
Ring cairn on Slipper Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009112. View the official record →
Ring cairn on Slipper Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Lancashire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009112.
Ring cairn on Slipper Hill 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 1009112.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two Romano-British farmsteads known as Ring Stones (0.3 km), Round cairn on Hameldon Pasture (0.7 km), Bowl barrow on Hameldon Pasture (0.7 km).
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