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Round cairn 230m west of Ridlees Cairn is a prehistoric burial monument located in Northumberland, England. The site represents a funerary structure of Bronze Age or Iron Age origin, constructed as a stone cairn in the characteristic mounded form typical of this region's ancient barrow tradition. Such monuments served as repositories for the dead and reflect the ritual and social practices of pre-Roman northern Britain. The cairn's survival into the modern period, despite agricultural activity and weathering, provides evidence of settlement patterns and burial customs in ancient Northumberland.
Round cairn 230m west of Ridlees Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021030. View the official record →
Round cairn 230m west of Ridlees Cairn is a prehistoric burial monument located in Northumberland, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021030.
Round cairn 230m west of Ridlees Cairn 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 1021030.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two Romano-British settlements, two stone hut circles, field system and associated cord rig cultivation, 650m west of Nether Houses (7.3 km), Evistones medieval settlement, field system and three bastles (7.4 km), Bagraw Roman camp and section of Roman road, 463m NNW of Bagraw (7.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn 230m west of Ridlees Cairn'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.
Round cairn 230m west of Ridlees Cairn stands on Border Group, bedrock that formed in the Meramecian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate argillaceous rocks and limestone.