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Weetwood Moor round cairns is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Northumberland, England. The site comprises multiple round cairns, stone-built burial mounds typical of the Bronze Age period, roughly 2200–700 BCE. These monuments represent the ritual practices and social structures of Bronze Age communities in northern England, serving as burial markers for individuals of status within their societies. The cairns survive as earthwork and stone remains on Weetwood Moor, contributing to the archaeological record of prehistoric Northumberland.
Weetwood Moor round cairns is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006454. View the official record →
Weetwood Moor round cairns is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Northumberland, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006454.
Weetwood Moor round cairns 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 1006454.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Settlement 470m north east of Heddon Hill (7.9 km), Round cairn cemetery 1000m north west of Heddon Hill (8.1 km), Three Romano-British farmsteads and part of a field system on Heddon Hill 900m north west of Calder (8.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Weetwood Moor round cairns'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.
Weetwood Moor round cairns stands on Border Group, bedrock that formed in the Meramecian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate argillaceous rocks and limestone.