Details

The monument is a round cairn located 80m east of Hagg Gill on a hillslope
just above the valley floor. It includes a mound of stones up to 0.8m high
with maximum dimension of 6.5m by 5.5m which abuts and incorporates a large
granite boulder on the cairn's northern and eastern sides.

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 round cairn 80m east of Hagg Gill survives reasonably well and is a rare
survival in Cumbria of an unexcavated example of this class of monument. It
will contain undisturbed archaeological deposits within the mound and upon the
old landsurface beneath. The use of a large boulder to form part of the cairn
is an unusual feature of this class of monument.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Other
Darvill,T., MPP Single Monument Class Description - Bowl Barrows, (1988)

Source: Historic England