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Round cairn west of Windy Gyle, 680m WNW of Russell's Cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Northumberland on the high moorland of the Pennines. The cairn survives as a roughly circular mound of stone, characteristic of prehistoric funerary practice in upland regions of northern England during the second millennium before the present era. Such monuments typically contained inhumation burials, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status and beliefs of Bronze Age communities. The site's location within a landscape that includes other contemporary cairn monuments suggests occupation and territorial use of these marginal upland areas during the Bronze Age period.
Round cairn west of Windy Gyle, 680m WNW of Russell's Cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015319. View the official record →
Round cairn west of Windy Gyle, 680m WNW of Russell's Cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Northumberland on the high moorland of the Pennines. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015319.
Round cairn west of Windy Gyle, 680m WNW of Russell's Cairn 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 1015319.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ring cairn and round cairn on Turf Hill (8.1 km), Ring cairn 240m north east of Old Quickening Cote (9 km), Outer Golden Pot medieval wayside cross (9.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn west of Windy Gyle, 680m WNW of Russell's Cairn'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 west of Windy Gyle, 680m WNW of Russell's Cairn stands on Stratheden Group, bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.