Sites on Great Ayton Moor Chambered Cairn

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Image of Great Ayton Moor Chambered Cairn (Cairn) by fitzcoraldo

Raymond Hayes’s Plan of the Chambered Cairn complex
A. Large oval enclosure
B. Cairn. A chamber & entrance passage are situated in the S.W. of the cairn.
C. Stone-walled circle & cremation pits.
D. Stone-walled circle & cremation pits.
E. Long bank or ‘Tail‘
F. Round cairn
G. Cairn
H. Cairn
J. Circle

From The Chambered Cairn and adjacent Monuments.
By R.H. Hayes
Scarborough & District Archaeological Society
Research Report No.7
1967

Image credit: Raymond Hayes
Image of Great Ayton Moor Chambered Cairn (Cairn) by fitzcoraldo

Looking for carved rocks on Ayton Moor can be a bit dodgy.
I met this sweet little fella at the chambered cairn this afternoon

Image of Great Ayton Moor Chambered Cairn (Cairn) by fitzcoraldo

This one requires a small act of faith and a bit of imagination...it is a chamber ...honest

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Great Ayton Moor Chambered Cairn

The Neolithic is represented on Ayton Moor by a lovely chambered cairn with two ring cairns next to it.
When paced out the cairn is 50m long and 10m across.
It is shaped a bit like a fat carrot. The chambers can still be seen, albeit somewhat wrecked, at the Northern end of the cairn.
The two ring cairns are fairly well defined and butt-onto each other. The moor itself contains many small. low lying round cairns.
You can reach this site in two ways.
The scenic route is from Great Ayton up past Roseberry Topping and on to the moor via Newton Moor.
The quick route is to park your motor at NZ594111 and take the Cleveland Way for about 600m onto the moor...easy peasy

Sites within 20km of Great Ayton Moor Chambered Cairn