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Round cairn 490m north-east of Sparretts Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Cornwall. The structure comprises a circular mound of stone and earth typical of cairn construction from the second millennium BCE. Such cairns served as communal or individual burial places and represent an important class of funerary monument from the Bronze Age period. The site remains a significant archaeological record of prehistoric settlement and mortuary practice in the Cornish landscape.
Round cairn 490m north-east of Sparretts Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011505. View the official record →
Round cairn 490m north-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 1011505.
Round cairn 490m north-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 1011505.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including St Cleer's Well and cross (3.8 km), Part of a medieval boundary dyke 220m east of Golitha House (3.9 km), Medieval churchyard cross in St Cleer churchyard (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn 490m north-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 490m north-east of Sparretts Farm stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.