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Stockdale Moor is a Bronze Age funerary and settlement landscape located in Cumberland, England, comprising an extensive cairnfield with multiple monument types including ring cairns, funerary cairns, and an unenclosed cairn cemetery. The site dates predominantly to the Bronze Age and represents a significant concentration of burial and associated ceremonial activity across the moorland, with evidence of contemporary field systems indicating organised pastoral and agricultural use of the landscape. The cairns vary in construction and form, reflecting different funerary practices and ritual traditions characteristic of Bronze Age communities in upland northern England. The survival of these monuments across Stockdale Moor provides important archaeological evidence for understanding Bronze Age settlement hierarchies, burial customs, and land use patterns in the region.
Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018503. View the official record →
Stockdale Moor is a Bronze Age funerary and settlement landscape located in Cumberland, England, comprising an extensive cairnfield with multiple monument types including ring cairns, funerary cairns, and an unenclosed cairn cemetery. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018503.
Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns 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 1018503.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ring cairn on Stockdale Moor 825m west of Pearson's Fold, north of Cawfell Beck (1.5 km), Yokerill Hows, group of seven cairns (1.6 km), Town Bank prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, ring cairn and cairnfield (2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns'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.
Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is mafic lava.