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Ring cairn on Slipper Hill is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Lancashire. The site consists of a circular stone cairn surrounded by a ditch or ring feature, a form characteristic of ring cairns constructed during the prehistoric period. Such monuments typically functioned as burial or ceremonial structures for Bronze Age communities. The precise dating and details of internal features remain subject to archaeological interpretation, though its inclusion in the National Heritage List indicates its recognised significance as a prehistoric funerary site.
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 Neolithic or 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).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn on Slipper Hill'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 Slipper Hill stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.