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Blea Gill is a Bronze Age settlement site located in Yorkshire, comprising an unenclosed group of prehistoric hut circles together with an associated field system and cremation cemetery. The hut circles represent domestic occupation of the upland landscape during the Bronze Age period, whilst the field systems demonstrate the agricultural exploitation of the surrounding terrain contemporary with habitation. The cremation cemetery indicates ritual practices and burial traditions characteristic of Bronze Age communities in northern England. The site as a whole provides archaeological evidence of sustained settlement, land use, and funerary practice within the upland zones of Yorkshire during the prehistoric period.
Unenclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement and associated field system and cremation cemetery at Blea Gill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018689. View the official record →
Blea Gill is a Bronze Age settlement site located in Yorkshire, comprising an unenclosed group of prehistoric hut circles together with an associated field system and cremation cemetery. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018689.
Unenclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement and associated field system and cremation cemetery at Blea Gill 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 1018689.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Churchyard cross, Burnsall (4.8 km), Rock with at least 13 cup marks 645m NNE of Ridge Lathe, Pinder Hawes Hill, Skyreholme (4.8 km), Rock with at least five cup marks and a sinuous groove mark 615m NNE of Ridge Lathe, Pinder Hawes Hill, Skyreholme (4.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Unenclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement and associated field system and cremation cemetery at Blea Gill'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.
Unenclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement and associated field system and cremation cemetery at Blea Gill stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.