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Windy Gyle is a Bronze Age cairn field located on the Cheviot Hills on the Roxburghshire-Northumberland border in southern Scotland. The site comprises at least two substantial cairns positioned approximately 480 metres and 700 metres north-east of the summit of Windy Gyle itself, representing funerary or ceremonial monuments typical of second-millennium BCE upland settlement patterns in the Borders region. These stone-built structures, characteristic of Bronze Age burial practice, occupy a prominent position within the wider archaeological landscape of the high moorland, where such cairn fields were often distributed across the most commanding topographical features. The monuments form part of the extensive prehistoric heritage of the Cheviot massif, which contains numerous contemporary cairns and field systems testament to sustained Bronze Age occupation of this upland terrain.
Windy Gyle,cairns 480m & 700m NE of summit of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4507. View the official record →
Windy Gyle is a Bronze Age cairn field located on the Cheviot Hills on the Roxburghshire-Northumberland border in southern Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4507.
Windy Gyle,cairns 480m & 700m NE of summit of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM4507.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ring cairn and round cairn on Turf Hill (8.1 km), Ring cairn 240m north east of Old Quickening Cote (8.9 km), Medieval and later dispersed settlement, 730m north and 860m north of Linbriggs (9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Windy Gyle,cairns 480m & 700m NE of summit of'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.
Windy Gyle,cairns 480m & 700m NE of summit of stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Silurian To Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Devonian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.