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The Round cairn and ancient boundary wall and ditch 450m WNW of The Blue Stone Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Shropshire. The site comprises a circular cairn of stone, representative of funerary practices during the Bronze Age period, alongside an associated ancient boundary feature consisting of a wall and ditch. Such monuments reflect the territorial organization and burial customs of prehistoric communities in the region. The monument's survival and formal listing reflect its archaeological significance as evidence of early settlement patterns and land use in Shropshire during the Bronze Age.
Round cairn and ancient boundary wall and ditch 450m WNW of The Blue Stone Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008384. View the official record →
The Round cairn and ancient boundary wall and ditch 450m WNW of The Blue Stone Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Shropshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008384.
Round cairn and ancient boundary wall and ditch 450m WNW of The Blue Stone 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 1008384.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ring cairn and two round cairns on Hoare Edge, 550m south east of Nine Springs Farm (1.8 km), Coal mining remains at Cornbrook on Clee Hill (2 km), Churchyard cross at St Mary's Church (3.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn and ancient boundary wall and ditch 450m WNW of The Blue Stone 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 and ancient boundary wall and ditch 450m WNW of The Blue Stone Farm stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.