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Round cairn 450m east of Sparretts Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Cornwall. The site consists of a circular mound of stone, characteristic of cairns constructed during the Bronze Age period as repositories for the dead. Such monuments are distributed across the Cornish landscape and represent an important class of funerary archaeology from the second millennium BCE. The cairn's survival and recording reflect the archaeological significance of Bronze Age burial practices in the region.
Round cairn 450m east of Sparretts Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009838. View the official record →
Round cairn 450m east of Sparretts Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Cornwall. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009838.
Round cairn 450m east of Sparretts 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 1009838.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Part of a medieval boundary dyke 220m east of Golitha House (3.7 km), Medieval churchyard cross in St Cleer churchyard (3.7 km), Medieval wayside cross at Wenmouth Cross, 320m north of Wenmouth (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn 450m east of Sparretts Farm'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 450m east of Sparretts Farm stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.