Cairn 400m north west of Newbridge Farm

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number:: 1019511
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-2001

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number:: 1019511
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-2001

Location

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Derbyshire
District:: Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:: Baslow and Bubnell
National Park:: PEAK DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SK 28720 72579

Reasons for Designation

The East Moors in Derbyshire includes all the gritstone moors east of the River Derwent. It covers an area of 105 sq km, of which around 63% is open moorland and 37% is enclosed. As a result of recent and on-going archaeological survey, the East Moors area is becoming one of the best recorded upland areas in England. On the enclosed land the archaeological remains are fragmentary, but survive sufficiently well to show that early human activity extended beyond the confines of the open moors. On the open moors there is significant and well-articulated evidence over extensive areas for human exploitation of the gritstone uplands from the Neolithic to the post-medieval periods. Bronze Age activity accounts for the most intensive use of the moorlands. Evidence for it includes some of the largest and best preserved field systems and cairnfields in northern England as well settlement sites, numerous burial monuments, stone circles and other ceremonial remains which, together, provide a detailed insight into life in the Bronze Age. Also of importance is the well preserved and often visible relationship between the remains of earlier and later periods since this provides an insight into successive changes in land use through time. A large number of the prehistoric sites on the moors, because of their rarity in a national context, excellent state of preservation and inter-connections, will be identified as nationally important.

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 were placed within the mound in stone-lined compartments called cists. Often occupying prominent locations, cairns are a major visual element in the modern landscape. Their considerable variation in form and longevity as a monument type provide important information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisation amongst prehistoric communities.

The cairn 400m north west of Newbridge Farm survives well despite partial disturbance and will contain evidence relating to the landscape in which it was constructed. In addition it is important in its association with contemporary settlement remains to the west and in its commanding position in the landscape.

Details

The monument includes a prehistoric cairn standing to the east of and overlooking a complex of contemporary settlement remains.

The cairn comprises a mound of surface-worn gritstones standing in open moorland on the crest of a minor escarpment. From this position there are extensive views over contemporary settlement and ceremonial features in the surrounding area. The cairn measures 12.5m by 10m and stands 0.6m high. It has been disturbed at its centre although the rim of the monument is intact and much of its internal structure survives. Undisturbed archaeological information will survive in the undisturbed parts of the cairn and in the ground below it.

The size and location of the cairn indicates that it is funerary in function and Early Bronze Age in date. It is almost certainly associated with the Bronze Age settlement remains to the west which the cairn overlooks. The monument represents a ceremonial site being part of a complex series of contemporary features on the same area of moorlands.

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:: 31284
Legacy System:: RSM

Sources

Books and journals
Barnatt, J, The Peak District Barrow Survey (1989), (1989), 29:15
Barnatt, J, The Peak District Barrow Survey (1989), (1989), 29:15

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 Culture, Media and Sport.