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<< Our Photo Pages >> Blawearie Cairn - Cairn in England in Northumberland

Submitted by minteddy on Sunday, 21 July 2002  Page Views: 16759

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Blawearie Cairn
Country: England County: Northumberland Type: Cairn

Map Ref: NU082223  Landranger Map Number: 75
Latitude: 55.494425N  Longitude: 1.87177W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 3

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Blawearie Cairn
Blawearie Cairn submitted by minteddy : This photo clearly shows two of the cysts within the cairn wall, I assum the large slab was a covering for one of the cysts. If you walk along the western edge of Bewick Common towards Chillingham you will stumble across the odd cyst in the heather. Do the Chillingham Cattle count as being Megalithic - they look very like cave paintings of cattle? (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cairn in Northumberland with two of the cysts within the cairn wall, I assume the large slab was a covering for one of the cysts.

If you walk along the western edge of Bewick Common towards Chillingham you will stumble across the odd cyst in the heather.

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Postman : Hoiking up the tripod (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Postman : Can we presume some cairn material has gone? (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by SolarMegalith : Central part of Blawearie cairn (photo taken on February 2014). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by SolarMegalith : Large kerbstones of Blawearie cairn (photo taken on February 2014). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Bladup : Blawearie kerb cairn.

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Bladup

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Bladup

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Bladup : Blawearie outcrop a little to the east of the kerb cairn and where the kerb cairn got its name from.

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Bladup : Blawearie kerb cairn.

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by minteddy : Not scanned too well. Shows larger curb stones round the cairn. Has this cairn been heavily restored?

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by minteddy : Photograph taken mid afternoon about halfway through February in 1990 or 1991

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Postman : There's so much to see up here you could spend all day hunting it down.

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Postman : Two cists and two cist lids.

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Postman : Cist and it's lid

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Postman : Towards the Cheviot hills

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Postman : Blawearie super cairn

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by SolarMegalith : Blawearie Cairn and view towards Old Bewick hillfort (photo taken on February 2014).

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by Ethelwulf : Blawearie cists. Northumberland Possibly 5000 years old

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Blawearie Cairn submitted by minteddy : Another view of the cysts within the cairn wall.

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 534m SW 229° Old Bewick 1i Rock Art (NU0779921946)
 600m SSW 193° Old Bewick 4* Rock Art (NU0806421715)
 630m ESE 120° Blawearie Fort* Hillfort (NU08752199)
 630m SW 231° Old Bewick Quarry B Rock Art (NU0770821904)
 639m E 99° Harehope 2 Rock Art (NU0883422205)
 644m E 94° Harehope 3 Rock Art (NU0884522259)
 646m E 99° Harehope 1 Rock Art (NU0884022197)
 652m SW 216° Old Bewick 1h* Rock Art (NU0781821770)
 657m ESE 120° Old Bewick 4 & 5 Rock Art (NU0877021970)
 665m SW 214° Old Bewick 1g Rock Art (NU0782521749)
 668m SW 230° Old Bewick Quarry A* Rock Art (NU0768721870)
 673m SW 230° Old Bewick Quarry C Rock Art (NU0768021870)
 695m SSW 211° Old Bewick 1e* Rock Art (NU0784321703)
 743m SSW 208° Old Bewick 1d* Rock Art (NU0784821645)
 780m SSW 207° Old Bewick 1c* Rock Art (NU0784721603)
 781m SSW 207° Old Bewick 1f* Rock Art (NU0784721602)
 800m SSW 206° Old Bewick 1b* Rock Art (NU0784421583)
 813m SSW 207° Old Bewick 1a* Rock Art (NU0782521577)
 824m SSW 208° Old Bewick 1N1 Rock Art (NU0781821569)
 829m N 4° Blawearie-Bewick Moor N03 Rock Art (NU0825223128)
 839m SW 215° Old Bewick 3f Rock Art (NU0771321615)
 840m SW 215° Old Bewick 3e Rock Art (NU0772321607)
 841m SW 216° Old Bewick 3g Rock Art (NU0770021622)
 850m SW 215° Old Bewick 3N2 Rock Art (NU0770721606)
 855m SW 215° Old Bewick 3d* Rock Art (NU0770921598)
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Re: Blawearie by Anonymous on Friday, 15 February 2008
For as much info as you need on this and other Northumbrian sites, go to Newcastle University's Stan Beckensall archive
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Re: Blawearie by minteddy on Saturday, 12 August 2006
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I have four photograpjs of this cairn taken in about February or early March 1990. Access to the cairn is by way of a landrover track to Blawearie farm which is beyond the cairn. Bewick Moor has the examples of rock art which are commented on elsewhere on this site as well as the hill fort. However if you stroll through the heather along the western edge of the Moor facing the Cheviots you may be fortuneate to stumble across three or four burial cysts. Unfortuneately I did not take any photographs or have the where withall to take grid references.
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