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Whinny Hill cairn cemetery is a Bronze Age burial site located in Northumberland, England. The site comprises multiple cairns, representing a concentrated area of funerary activity from the Bronze Age period. Such cairn cemeteries are characteristic of later Bronze Age burial practices in northern Britain, where communities established designated burial grounds containing numerous individual monuments. The site's survival and archaeological designation reflect its importance for understanding prehistoric settlement patterns and mortuary behaviour in the North East of England.
Whinny Hill cairn cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006462. View the official record →
Whinny Hill cairn cemetery is a Bronze Age burial site located in Northumberland, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006462.
Whinny Hill cairn cemetery 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 1006462.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bewick Hill, cairns and barrows, Old Bewick (4.9 km), Bewick Hill Moor camp, Old Bewick (6 km), Round cairns N of Tick Law (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Whinny Hill cairn cemetery'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.
Whinny Hill cairn cemetery stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordinate sandstone, interbedded.