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The Three Kings is a prehistoric monument in Northumberland comprising a stone circle and associated round cairn. The site dates to the Bronze Age and represents an important funerary and ceremonial landscape of the second millennium BC. The monument consists of standing stones arranged in circular formation with a burial mound at its centre, a configuration typical of Bronze Age ritual sites in northern England. Such monuments served as focal points for communal burial practices and religious observance during the Bronze Age period.
The Three Kings four poster stone circle and round cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015525. View the official record →
The Three Kings is a prehistoric monument in Northumberland comprising a stone circle and associated round cairn. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015525.
The Three Kings four poster stone circle and 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 1015525.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Romano-British enclosed settlement and medieval settlement 300m south of Burdhope (4.5 km), Roman camp and prehistoric round cairn 700m north-east of Bellshiel Bridge (4.5 km), Romano-British farmstead 570m west of Woolaw (4.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of The Three Kings four poster stone circle and round cairn'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.
The Three Kings four poster stone circle and round cairn stands on Inverclyde Group, bedrock that formed in the Osagean. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.