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.
The Cairnfield
The cairnfield site lies on a gentle south-facing slope of a hill-spur in Weardale and remains in open moorland. Two of the cairns were excavated in 1977 and surveys undertaken in 1984 and 1991.
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.
See also
History of County Durham
Bronze Age Britain
Heathery Burn Cave
References
External links
Young, R. 1984. PhD Thesis – Aspects of the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Wear Valley, County Durham
Bronze Age sites in County Durham
Stanhope, County Durham
Barrows in England
Cairns (stone mounds)