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Stockdale Moor is a Bronze Age ceremonial and domestic landscape located in Cumberland, comprising an extensive cairnfield with associated field systems and funerary monuments. The site contains numerous ring cairns and funerary cairns distributed across the moorland, representing both burial practices and the organisation of contemporary settlement and agricultural activity. The monuments are characteristic of Bronze Age upland land use in northern England, demonstrating the integration of ritual, mortuary, and subsistence activities within a single landscape zone. The cairnfield and its associated features provide important archaeological evidence for understanding prehistoric settlement patterns and the funerary practices of Bronze Age communities in the English Lake District 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 ceremonial and domestic landscape located in Cumberland, comprising an extensive cairnfield with associated field systems and funerary monuments. 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).
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