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Round cairn, 300m south of Lowshield Green is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Northumberland. The structure comprises a circular mound of stone material typical of prehistoric funerary practice in northern Britain, where such cairns served as communal or individual burial sites during the second and third millennia before the common era. The monument remains substantially intact as an archaeological feature, preserving evidence of the burial customs and settlement patterns of early farming communities in the region. Its designation as a scheduled ancient monument reflects its importance for understanding prehistoric Northumberland and the broader development of barrow-building traditions across northern England.
Round cairn, 300m south of Lowshield Green is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014050. View the official record →
Round cairn, 300m south of Lowshield Green is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Northumberland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014050.
Round cairn, 300m south of Lowshield Green 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 1014050.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp (9 km), Romano-British farmstead, 210m south east of Walwick Fell (9.1 km), Carrawburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary east of the fort and the field boundary west of Coventina's Well in wall mile 31 (9.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn, 300m south of Lowshield Green'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, 300m south of Lowshield Green stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordinate sandstone, interbedded.