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
One of the Ring Cairns associated with the Chambered Cairn.
One of the better chambers.
Bela Vista indeed!
The Neolithic long cairn taken from the southern ring cairn.
Looking for carved rocks on Ayton Moor can be a bit dodgy.
I met this sweet little fella at the chambered cairn this afternoon
This one requires a small act of faith and a bit of imagination...it is a chamber ...honest
More ruined chambers
the ruins of one of the chambers within the 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
When the cairn was excavated in the 1950’s no finds were discovered, it was dated to the Neolithic by pollen analysis
“On Ayton Moor is a complex chambered cairn with a bank250 ft long and 10 ft wide”
The North York Moors
Stanhope White
Pub. Dalsman Paperbacks
1979
Mike Haigh’s article on the cairn.
