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Selside Pike round cairn

England
List entry 1007591
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1007591
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.04 hectares
Grid reference
NY 49071 11181
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Selside Pike round cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Westmorland, in the Lake District region of northern England. The cairn comprises a mound of stone constructed during the later prehistoric period as a funerary structure, typical of the barrow traditions that characterised Bronze Age burial practices across upland Britain. The site is situated in the distinctive fell landscape of the region, where such monuments are found in clusters reflecting patterns of settlement and land use in prehistory. As a recorded archaeological monument, it contributes to understanding of Bronze Age burial customs and the organisation of communities in the Pennine and Lake District uplands during the second millennium BCE.

Selside Pike round cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007591. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Selside Pike round cairn?

Selside Pike round cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Westmorland, in the Lake District region of northern England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007591.

Who is responsible for protecting Selside Pike round cairn?

Selside Pike round 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 1007591.

What other scheduled monuments are near Selside Pike round cairn?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Castle Crag slight univallate hillfort (2.7 km), Romano-British farmstead 800m north-east of High House (4.2 km), Buck Park deerpound (4.6 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Castle Crag slight univallate hillfort
2.7 km
Romano-British farmstead 800m north-east of High House
4.2 km
Buck Park deerpound
4.6 km
Round cairn on High Raise
4.8 km
Round cairn west of White Raise
4.9 km
Round cairn on White Raise
4.9 km
Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement and Romano-British farmstead north west of Tongue House Barn.
5.8 km
Medieval dyke system and shieling west of Shap Abbey
6.7 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Selside Pike round cairn

Selside Pike round cairn stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is felsic tuff.

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