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Yokerill Hows is a group of seven Bronze Age cairns situated in Cumberland, England. The monuments consist of stone burial mounds that represent a funerary landscape characteristic of the second millennium BC, when such cairn groups were constructed across the upland regions of northern England. The individual cairns vary in size and preservation condition, reflecting both their original construction and subsequent weathering and disturbance over more than three thousand years. This cairn group exemplifies the Bronze Age practice of establishing distinct burial grounds in prominent upland locations, serving as territorial or familial markers within the prehistoric landscape.
Yokerill Hows, group of seven cairns is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007228. View the official record →
Yokerill Hows is a group of seven Bronze Age cairns situated in Cumberland, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007228.
Yokerill Hows, group of seven 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 1007228.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns (1.6 km), Gray Borran group of cairns (1.6 km), Infell Wood medieval enclosure, 550m north west of Scargreen (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Yokerill Hows, group of seven 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.
Yokerill Hows, group of seven cairns stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Ordovician To Silurian, bedrock that formed in the Silurian. The rock here is mafic igneous-rock.