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Round cairn 520m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell is a Bronze Age burial monument located on the upland moorland of Westmorland in the Lake District. The cairn survives as a prominent circular mound of stone, characteristic of funerary structures constructed during the second millennium BC. Its position on Askham Fell reflects the Bronze Age practice of locating burial cairns on elevated terrain with open sightlines, a placement strategy common across northern upland regions. As a scheduled ancient monument, it remains an important archaeological witness to prehistoric settlement and burial practices in the North West of England.
Round cairn 520m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007370. View the official record →
Round cairn 520m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell is a Bronze Age burial monument located on the upland moorland of Westmorland in the Lake District. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007370.
Round cairn 520m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell 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 1007370.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round cairn north of Four Stones Hill (6.1 km), Two standing stones north-west of Four Stones Hill (6.2 km), Enclosure containing four clearance cairns and a stone bank west of Four Stones Hill (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn 520m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell'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 520m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.