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Thompson's Rigg cairnfield is a Bronze Age ceremonial and burial landscape located in Yorkshire, England, comprising multiple monument types distributed across the upland terrain. The site includes a platform cairn, several round burial cairns, a ring cairn, associated round barrows, a standing stone, and evidence of ancient hollow ways that may represent routeways or processional paths through the landscape. These monuments, principally dating to the Bronze Age, reflect the ritual and mortuary practices of prehistoric communities and demonstrate the significance of this location as a focus for burial and ceremonial activity over an extended period. The survival of hollow ways alongside the cairn complexes provides rare archaeological evidence of Bronze Age land use and movement patterns across the moorland environment.
Thompson's Rigg cairnfield, including a platform cairn, round burial cairns, hollow ways, a standing stone, associated round barrows and a ring cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019629. View the official record →
Thompson's Rigg cairnfield is a Bronze Age ceremonial and burial landscape located in Yorkshire, England, comprising multiple monument types distributed across the upland terrain. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019629.
Thompson's Rigg cairnfield, including a platform cairn, round burial cairns, hollow ways, a standing stone, associated round barrows and a ring 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 1019629.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 570m south east of Warren House (8.1 km), Long barrow 530m north of Keeper's Cottage (8.2 km), Round barrow 470m north of Keeper's Cottage (8.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Thompson's Rigg cairnfield, including a platform cairn, round burial cairns, hollow ways, a standing stone, associated round barrows and a ring 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.
Thompson's Rigg cairnfield, including a platform cairn, round burial cairns, hollow ways, a standing stone, associated round barrows and a ring cairn stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.