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Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Lancashire, England. The site consists of a roughly circular mound of stones characteristic of cairn construction from the second millennium BCE, representing a funerary tradition common across northern Britain during this period. Such cairns typically served as communal or individual burial markers and often contained cremated remains or inhumations within central chambers or beneath the mound itself. The monument's survival to the present day, despite centuries of potential disturbance from agricultural activity, reflects its significance as a rare surviving example of Bronze Age monumental architecture in the Lancashire landscape.
Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008907. View the official record →
Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Lancashire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008907.
Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm 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 1008907.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round cairn on Winter Hill (2.7 km), Round cairn on Noon Hill (3.1 km), Headless Cross, Grimeford (4.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm 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.