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Two adjacent ring cairns on Riddings Rigg, Reeth Low Moor is a Bronze Age monument comprising two roughly circular cairns positioned close together on the moorland of North Yorkshire. Ring cairns of this type typically date to the middle Bronze Age, around the second millennium BC, and are thought to have served ritual or funerary purposes. The monuments are characteristic of the cairn-building traditions evident across the Pennine uplands during this period. Their proximity to one another suggests they may have formed part of a larger ceremonial or burial landscape, though their precise original function remains a matter of archaeological interpretation.
Two adjacent ring cairns on Riddings Rigg, Reeth Low Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012615. View the official record →
Two adjacent ring cairns on Riddings Rigg, Reeth Low Moor is a Bronze Age monument comprising two roughly circular cairns positioned close together on the moorland of North Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012615.
Two adjacent ring cairns on Riddings Rigg, Reeth Low Moor 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 1012615.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Grinton ore hearth lead smelt mill, flue, fuel store and associated earthworks (4.7 km), Ring cairn at Juniper Gill, Ellerton Moor (6.8 km), Cup marked stone on Stainton Moor above White Bog (7.3 km).
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Two adjacent ring cairns on Riddings Rigg, Reeth Low Moor stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.