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Round cairn on Appleby Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Lancashire. The site consists of a circular mound constructed from stone rubble, characteristic of cairn construction methods employed during the Bronze Age period. Such monuments typically served as repositories for cremated or inhumed remains and often formed part of larger ceremonial or funerary landscapes. The cairn's survival to the present day provides archaeological evidence of Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns in the region.
Round cairn on Appleby Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013963. View the official record →
Round cairn on Appleby Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Lancashire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013963.
Round cairn on Appleby Hill 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 1013963.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Concentric stone circle on Birkrigg Common (0.5 km), Round cairn on Birkrigg Common, 520m north west of High Sunbrick Farm (0.6 km), Romano-British enclosed hut circle settlement 660m south east of Holme Bank (1.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn on Appleby Hill'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 on Appleby Hill stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.