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Round cairn on The Roaches is a Bronze Age burial monument situated on The Roaches, a prominent gritstone escarpment in Staffordshire. The cairn comprises a mounded accumulation of stones typical of funerary structures from the second millennium before the present era. Its location on high ground reflects the landscape preferences of Bronze Age communities, who frequently positioned burial monuments in visually prominent positions across the English uplands. The monument survives as a material record of prehistoric funerary practice and settlement patterns in the region.
Round cairn on The Roaches is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009042. View the official record →
Round cairn on The Roaches is a Bronze Age burial monument situated on The Roaches, a prominent gritstone escarpment in Staffordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009042.
Round cairn on The Roaches 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 1009042.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Merryton Low bowl barrow (5 km), Bowl barrow 350m south-west of Merryton Low (5 km), Dieu-la-Cres Abbey (remains of) (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn on The Roaches'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 The Roaches stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.