Details

The monument includes a cairn with an oval rubble-banked enclosure attached,
on Midgley Moor, 430m north east of Upper Han Royd. The cairn is 5m in
diameter and 1m high. On its east side is a rubble bank 2m wide and 0.3m high,
forming an oval 7m by 5m. The cairn may be a ring cairn, a ritual monument of
the Early or Middle Bronze Age.

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.

Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

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.

The cairn 430m north east of Upper Han Royd survives well and will retain
important archaeological information.

Source: Historic England