Round cairn 490m ENE of Rough Hill Tarn
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Scheduled Monument
- List Entry Number:
- 1007365
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1995
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Location
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cumbria
- District:
- Eden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bampton
- National Park:
- LAKE DISTRICT
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 49943 19543
Reasons for Designation
Round cairns are prehistoric funerary monuments dating to the Bronze Age
(c.2000-700 BC). They were constructed as stone mounds covering single or
multiple burials. These burials may be placed within the mound in stone-lined
compartments called cists. In some cases the cairn was surrounded by a ditch.
Often occupying prominent locations, cairns are a major visual element in the
modern landscape. They are a relatively common feature of the uplands and are
the stone equivalent of the earthen round barrows of the lowlands. Their
considerable variation in form and longevity as a monument type provide
important information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisation
amongst early prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of
their period and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered
worthy of protection.
Despite recent dumping of rubble and slate on the monument's summit, the round
cairn 490m ENE of Rough Hill Tarn survives reasonably well. It is not known to
have been excavated and will contain undisturbed archaeological deposits
within the cairn and upon the old landsurface beneath.
Details
The monument is a round cairn located on a north easterly facing slope 490m
ENE of Rough Hill Tarn. It includes an irregularly-shaped mound of stones up
to 0.4m high with maximum dimensions of 12m by 9m. There is a triangular-
shaped earthfast boulder approximately 1m long incorporated in the cairn's
southern side.
MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 22536
- Legacy System:
- RSM
Sources
Books and journals
Quartermaine, J, Askham Fell Survey Catalogue, (1992), 23
Other
Darvill, T, MPP Single Monument Class Descriptions - Bowl Barrows (1988), (1988)
SMR No. 1595, Cumbria SMR, Bampton, (1985)
To Quartermaine,J., Clare, T (County Archaeologist),
Legal
This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
End of official listing