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Tongue How is a multiphase archaeological site in Cumberland documenting settlement patterns across more than two millennia. The site comprises prehistoric stone hut circles representing Bronze Age or Iron Age domestic occupation, associated field systems and lynchets indicating land management practices, funerary cairns and a cairnfield marking Bronze Age burial activity, and the remains of a Romano-British farmstead reflecting continued settlement during the Roman period. Later use of the site included a shieling, indicating pastoral transhumance practices in the medieval or post-medieval period. The cumulative evidence of successive occupation phases makes Tongue How significant for understanding long-term patterns of settlement, agriculture and land use in the upland regions of northern England.
Tongue How prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, cemetery and cairnfield, Romano-British farmstead, shieling and lynchets is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018500. View the official record →
Tongue How is a multiphase archaeological site in Cumberland documenting settlement patterns across more than two millennia. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018500.
Tongue How prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, cemetery and cairnfield, Romano-British farmstead, shieling and lynchets 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 1018500.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Town Bank prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, ring cairn and cairnfield (1.8 km), Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns (3.3 km), Ring cairn on Stockdale Moor 825m west of Pearson's Fold, north of Cawfell Beck (3.4 km).
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