<< Other Photo Pages >> Low Hauxley - Cairn in England in Northumberland
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Low Hauxley Alternative Name: Druridge BayCountry: England County: Northumberland Type: Cairn
Map Ref: NU284018
Latitude: 55.309475N Longitude: 1.55414W
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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The cairns lie on a slight ridge of land to the south of a peat deposit exposed below sand dunes, with potential evidence of episodes of later dune stabilisation. The coastline is subject to periods of rapid erosion, high tides, and easterly gales during the winter months which have resulted in intermittent exposure of cists within the cairn structure; subsequent excavation has revealed inhumations, cremations, and a beaker. Inland, the natural depositional sequence has been truncated by large scale opencast extraction.
More in the English Heritage Review for 1994/5, and see also the Excavation Image gallery and Low Hauxley archive reports at Pastscape.
For recent discoveries of a Bronze Age child's burial see our news page.
Note: Site featured in Britain's Bronze Age Mummies, Sunday 2nd March, Channel 4 UK
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