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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Crawley EdgeCountry: England
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County: County Durham Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Stanhope
Map Ref: NZ0007139875
Latitude: 54.753823N Longitude: 2.000419W
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At Crawley Edge to the immediate North above Stanhope in Weardale lies a large Cairnfield of Bronze Age date. Cairnfields are concentrations of cairns sited in close proximity to one another. They often consist largely of clearance cairns, built with stone cleared from the surrounding land to improve its use for agriculture, and on occasion their distribution pattern can be seen to define field plots. Funerary cairns are also frequently incorporated, although without excavation it may be impossible to determine which cairns contain burials.
Clearance cairns were constructed from the Neolithic period (from c.3400 BC), although the majority of examples appear to be the result of field clearance which began during the earlier Bronze Age and continued into the later Bronze Age (2000-700 BC).
Cairnfields are uncommon in County Durham and this one is a good example of its type with significant archaeological deposits remaining. At least forty-one earth and stone cairns have been recognised. A stone curb surrounds many, which suggest that they are burial mounds dating to the period 2600BC to 700BC
This is a Scheduled Ancient Monument protected by law: see Historic England List ID 1016816 (Cairnfield on Crawley Edge, 500m north west of Hill Crest) and Pastscape Monument No. 20163.
In the southern part of the Cairnfield, the cairns lie in four distinct small groupings around an area in which there are no visible cairns and which is also relatively stone free.
The cairns which lie in the northern part of the cairnfield display a more dispersed pattern.
Most of the cairns are oval or oblong in shape and many have traces of a surrounding kerb. They range in size from 1.8m to 8.5m in diameter, the majority being between 3m and 7m across, and vary in height from 0.2m to 1m.
Two of the cairns situated in one of the groups in the southern part of the cairnfield were excavated in 1976 and 1977. The first and largest cairn contained a large Bronze Age pot, which had been placed within a pit dug into the subsoil beneath the cairn material. The pot was of a type known as a collared urn, and contained the remains of cremated bone. Three jet beads, several fragments of bone and charcoal were also recovered from the excavation. Dates were obtained by radio-carbon dating which indicate that the main period of activity occurred in the Early Bronze Age.
On excavation, the structure of the second cairn was revealed, suggesting that this cairn, of a similar date to the first, was formed by field clearance.
Reference number: D1382
National Heritage List for England Entry Number: 1016816
Reference Sources
Young, R 1984 PhD thesis: Aspects of the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Wear Valley, Co. Durham
Clack, P 1980 The Archaeology of the Durham Dales, Prehistoric List Site 11 - Durham Archaeology Committee,
CBA North Newsbulletin No15 Jan-77 - Council for British Archaeology
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