Crawley Edge Cairns
Bronze Age Cairnfield in near Stanhope, County Durham
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The Crawley Edge Cairns are a series of forty-two Bronze Age round barrows, cairns and clearance cairns located in a field in Crawleyside, near Stanhope, County Durham, England.[1]
| Crawley Edge Cairns | |
|---|---|
| Crawley Edge Cairnfield | |
  Map showing the location of the Crawley Edge Cairns in County Durham. | |
| 54.753149°N 1.9968609°W | |
| Type | Bronze Age Cairnfield |
| Location | near Stanhope, County Durham |
| Region | North East |
The Cairnfield
The cairnfield site lies on a gentle south-facing slope of a hill-spur in Weardale and remains in open moorland.[1] Two of the cairns were excavated in 1977 and surveys undertaken in 1984 and 1991.[1][2]
The inclusion of clearance cairns at the site is usually taken as an indication of clearance in advance of arable farming, but the Crawley Edge field unusually includes a barrow cremation mound among the cairns.[3]