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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Benthall Round Cairn Alternative Name: Benthall CistsCountry: England County: Northumberland Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Seahouses Nearest Village: Beadnell
Map Ref: NU2371528908
Latitude: 55.553296N Longitude: 1.625648W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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This Bronze Age round cairn is recorded as both Pastscape Monument No. 8211 and Historic England List ID 1008430. It is sited on the edge of a cliff, to the north of Beadnell harbour (and lime kilns), just inside a private garden and next to the footpath along the shoreline.
Visible remains comprise a cist which sits on the edge of an amorphous mound of boulders. The mound is roughly circular, measuring 15m in diameter, standing to a height of approx. 0.4m. Today, several self-seeded bushes grow out of the middle of the cist. A second cist, now no longer visible, used to lie 3.5m to the south of the first.
Both cists were discovered and partially excavated in 1934. The Historic England entry tells us: "the first ... is built of large sandstone slabs orientated WNW by ESE and measures 0.9m by 0.6m and is 0.5m deep. It contained the bones of a prehistoric burial. The second cist measured 0.8m by 0.6m and was 0.6m deep. The removal of a covering slab of sandstone revealed the remains of a second prehistoric burial along with a decorated Bronze Age pottery vessel; the pot is now in the Museum of Antiquities in Newcastle."
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