Devil's Lapful

Devil's Lapful is a Neolithic long cairn in Kielder Forest, Northumberland, dating to approximately 3400-2400 BC. One of few surviving long cairns in Northumberland, it measures 60 by 14 metres and stands 2 metres high, constructed of rounded boulders with stone slabs and smaller stones at the edges. Oriented north-northeast to south-southwest on a hillside slope, the cairn likely served as a communal burial site for a local community over several generations. First examined in the 1930s by Newbigin with inconclusive results, the site shows evidence of later quarrying for a nearby sheep fold. It has been designated a scheduled monument.