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The round cairn on the east flank of Baildon Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument situated in West Yorkshire. The structure comprises a mound of stones typical of cairn construction from the Bronze Age period, when such monuments served as communal or individual burial places across northern Britain. Its location on Baildon Hill, a prominent upland position, reflects the Bronze Age practice of placing burial cairns in visually significant landscape settings. The monument survives as a scheduled ancient monument and represents an important element of the prehistoric funerary landscape of the Pennine region.
Round cairn on east flank of Baildon Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012676. View the official record →
The round cairn on the east flank of Baildon Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument situated in West Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012676.
Round cairn on east flank of Baildon 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 1012676.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rock with one cup mark north east of the Cricketers' Arms, Baildon Green (1.6 km), Cup-marked rock between road and public toilets at Bracken Hall Green (1.7 km), Carved bedrock close to road north east of the public toilets on Bracken Hall Green (1.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn on east flank of Baildon 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 east flank of Baildon Hill 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.