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Standing stone on Bilsdale West Moor is a Bronze Age monument located on the North York Moors in North Yorkshire. The stone stands as a solitary upright monolith on the open moorland, characteristic of Bronze Age ritual and ceremonial sites in northern England. Such standing stones typically date to the second millennium BC and often mark significant territorial or religious locations within the prehistoric landscape. The monument survives as an important record of Bronze Age activity on the Yorkshire moorlands, where such stones frequently occur in clusters or alignments associated with burial cairns and other ceremonial features.
Standing stone on Bilsdale West Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010526. View the official record →
Standing stone on Bilsdale West Moor is a Bronze Age monument located on the North York Moors in North Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010526.
Standing stone on Bilsdale West Moor 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 1010526.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 11m east of Hazel Head Wood (8.8 km), Round barrow 450m north west of Far Pasture Wood (8.9 km), Round barrow at Sunburnt Nab (9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Standing stone on Bilsdale West Moor'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.
Standing stone on Bilsdale West Moor stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.