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Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck

England
List entry 1014735
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1014735
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
4.58 hectares
Grid reference
NY 15584 17579
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck is a post-medieval pastoral settlement located in Cumberland, England. The site comprises the earthwork remains of seasonal shelters and associated structures characteristic of upland shieling practice, whereby livestock herds were moved to high pastures during summer months. Dating to the post-medieval period, the settlement reflects the transhumant pastoral economy that sustained upland communities in the Lake District and wider Pennine regions. The physical remains consist of stone-built structures and associated field systems that demonstrate the organized exploitation of marginal pastoral land during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014735. View the official record →

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What is Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck?

Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck is a post-medieval pastoral settlement located in Cumberland, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014735.

Who is responsible for protecting Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck?

Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck 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 1014735.

What other scheduled monuments are near Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Gillerthwaite and Dodsgill Beck medieval settlements, associated field systems and cairnfields 790m ENE and 370m north-east of Low Gillerthwaite (3.4 km), Smithy Beck settlement 1.10km north-west of Low Gillerthwaite (3.6 km), Smithy Beck settlement: Latterbarrow longhouse 860m north west of Low Gillerthwaite (3.7 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

Gillerthwaite and Dodsgill Beck medieval settlements, associated field systems and cairnfields 790m ENE and 370m north-east of Low Gillerthwaite
3.4 km
Smithy Beck settlement 1.10km north-west of Low Gillerthwaite
3.6 km
Smithy Beck settlement: Latterbarrow longhouse 860m north west of Low Gillerthwaite
3.7 km
Prehistoric cairnfield 1.0km ESE of Low Gillerthwaite
3.8 km
Prehistoric cairnfield and a Romano-British farmstead and its associated field system 1.24 km ESE of Low Gillerthwaite
3.8 km
Woundell Beck medieval settlement, associated field system and cairnfield 890m west of Low Gillerthwaite
4.3 km
Smithy Beck prehistoric cairnfield, charcoal burning sites, a bloomery and associated earthworks 1.97km WNW of Low Gillerthwaite
4.5 km
Medieval shielings at Great Cove, 2.68km south of Low Gillerthwaite
6.2 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck

Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck stands on Ordovician Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

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