Details

The monument includes a round cairn located c.75m north east of the summit of
Carling Knott. It consists of an oval-shaped mound of stones up to 0.7m high
and measuring 18m north-south by 11m east-west, which has been piled around a
central core of outcropping bedrock.

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.

Despite some slippage of the stones forming the cairn on the downslope
northern side of the monument, the round cairn 75m north east of the summit of
Carling Knott survives reasonably well. It will contain undisturbed
archaeological deposits within the mound and upon the old landsurface beneath.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Other
Darvill, T, MPP Single Monument Class Description - Bowl Barrows, (1988)
SMR No 1069, Cumbria SMR, Carling Knott II, (1986)

Source: Historic England