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Round cairn on Pye Rigg 600m SSE of Pye Rigg Howe is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on moorland in Yorkshire. The cairn comprises a circular mound of stone constructed as a burial structure, typical of cairn construction practices during the Bronze Age period. As a scheduled monument, it forms part of the Bronze Age archaeological landscape of the northern Pennines, contributing to the archaeological record of prehistoric burial practices in the region. The site's moorland location and preservation reflect the wider distribution of Bronze Age barrow cemeteries across the upland areas of Yorkshire.
Round cairn on Pye Rigg 600m SSE of Pye Rigg Howe is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019680. View the official record →
Round cairn on Pye Rigg 600m SSE of Pye Rigg Howe is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on moorland in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019680.
Round cairn on Pye Rigg 600m SSE of Pye Rigg Howe 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 1019680.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Thieves' Dikes: prehistoric linear boundaries and associated features (6.9 km), Round barrow 920m south west of Silpho Brow Farm (7 km), Round barrow on Suffield Moor, 750m south of Silpho Brow Farm (7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn on Pye Rigg 600m SSE of Pye Rigg Howe'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 Pye Rigg 600m SSE of Pye Rigg Howe stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.