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The round cairn on Titterstone Clee Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument situated on the high ground of this prominent Shropshire summit. The cairn survives as a substantial earthwork comprising a mound of stone rubble, typical of funerary structures erected during the Bronze Age period when such monuments were widely constructed across upland areas of Britain. Its location on Titterstone Clee, one of the highest points in Shropshire, reflects the Bronze Age practice of placing burial cairns in prominent landscape positions that would have been visible across considerable distances. The monument remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric burial practices and landscape use in the region.
Round cairn on Titterstone Clee Hill, 440m north west of The Blue Stone Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010312. View the official record →
The round cairn on Titterstone Clee Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument situated on the high ground of this prominent Shropshire summit. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010312.
Round cairn on Titterstone Clee Hill, 440m north west of The Blue Stone Farm 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 1010312.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ring cairn and two round cairns on Hoare Edge, 550m south east of Nine Springs Farm (1.9 km), Coal mining remains at Cornbrook on Clee Hill (2 km), Churchyard cross at St Mary's Church (3.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn on Titterstone Clee Hill, 440m north west of The Blue Stone Farm'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 Titterstone Clee Hill, 440m north west of The Blue Stone Farm 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.