Crawley Edge Cairns

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]. 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 [1].