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Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield is a Bronze Age funerary and ritual landscape situated on high moorland approximately one kilometre east-north-east of Woodend Bridge in Cumberland. The monument comprises multiple cairns, including a substantial funerary cairn, distributed across the site and accompanied by a linear boundary feature that may relate to land division or territorial demarcation within the Bronze Age period. The cairnfield represents evidence of sustained burial practice and land use during the second millennium before the present era, with the arrangement of monuments across the moorland landscape reflecting the social and ritual organisation of prehistoric upland communities. The site remains largely in its archaeological context, preserving information about Bronze Age funerary customs and the pattern of settlement and land management in the Cumbrian uplands.
Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield, funerary cairn and a linear boundary 1000m ENE of Woodend Bridge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020203. View the official record →
Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield is a Bronze Age funerary and ritual landscape situated on high moorland approximately one kilometre east-north-east of Woodend Bridge in Cumberland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020203.
Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield, funerary cairn and a linear boundary 1000m ENE of Woodend Bridge 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 1020203.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Settlement on The Hawk (6.8 km), Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Thwaites Fell immediately north of Hodgewife Well (6.8 km), Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Waberthwaite Fell, on the north bank of Charlesground Gill, 880m south east of High Corney (6.9 km).
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