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Round cairn cemetery on Holystone Common is a Bronze Age burial site located in Northumberland, comprising a concentration of burial mounds on the open moorland. The cemetery consists of multiple round cairns of varying sizes, representing a substantial funerary landscape typical of Bronze Age burial practices in northern England. The site demonstrates the importance of Holystone Common as a focus for ritual and mortuary activity during the second millennium BCE, with the grouped arrangement of cairns indicating extended use as a communal burial ground. Such cairn cemeteries are significant archaeological resources for understanding Bronze Age settlement patterns, social organisation, and burial customs in the upland regions of Northumberland.
Round cairn cemetery on Holystone Common is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011400. View the official record →
Round cairn cemetery on Holystone Common is a Bronze Age burial site located in Northumberland, comprising a concentration of burial mounds on the open moorland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011400.
Round cairn cemetery on Holystone Common 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 1011400.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bastle at The Raw Farm (4.1 km), 18th century water mill at Grasslees (4.1 km), Cairn on Whitefield Shank, 1100m SSW of Hepple Whitefield Farm (4.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn cemetery on Holystone Common'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 cemetery on Holystone Common stands on Border Group, bedrock that formed in the Meramecian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate argillaceous rocks and limestone.