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Round cairn 850m ENE of Sparretts Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Cornwall. The site consists of a circular mound constructed from stone, typical of cairn construction practices employed during the Bronze Age for interment and commemorative purposes. Such monuments are characteristic of the funerary landscape of prehistoric Cornwall and represent significant evidence of burial customs and settlement patterns during this period. The cairn's survival to the present day provides archaeological insight into Bronze Age mortuary practices and territorial organisation in south-western Britain.
Round cairn 850m ENE of Sparretts Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010236. View the official record →
Round cairn 850m ENE 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 1010236.
Round cairn 850m ENE 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 1010236.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including St Cleer's Well and cross (3.8 km), Medieval wayside cross at Redgate (3.8 km), Medieval churchyard cross in St Cleer churchyard (3.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn 850m ENE 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 850m ENE of Sparretts Farm stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.