Asset Overview
The monument includes earthwork and buried remains of a complex and extensive area of archaeological remains, the dates of which span an approximately 4500 year period. It is located on either side of Eller Beck on the steep eastern side of the Lune valley and has been identified by a combination of documentary sources, aerial photography, field survey and limited excavation. The monument extends across the Lancashire/Cumbria boundary and includes nine prehistoric funerary cairns, two prehistoric hut circle settlements with associated cairnfields and field systems, a prehistoric field system of the type generally described as `coaxial', nine Romano-British settlements, two medieval dispersed settlements with associated curvilinear field systems, five medieval dispersed settlements, two curvilinear medieval field systems, three medieval shielings, part of a later medieval field system, an early post- medieval dispersed settlement and part of an early post-medieval field system.