Map showing the location of the Crawley Edge Cairns in County Durham. | |
Alternative name | Crawley Edge Cairnfield |
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Location | near Stanhope, County Durham |
Region | North East |
Coordinates | 54°45′11″N 1°59′49″W / 54.753149°N 1.9968609°W |
Type | Bronze Age Cairnfield |
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]
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]