In December 2014, a routine heather-burning exercise on Ellerton Moor went out of control , causing about eight hectares of moorland to be burnt down to the clay sub-soil and revealing many archaeological features over a wide area that were previously hidden beneath the heather.
It was a rare opportunity to survey in detail a then-fully-exposed area that was already known to contain extensive archaeological remains. Tim Laurie and Stephen Eastmead conducted the survey. Read the 37-page SWAAG report here: Ellerton Moor, Juniper Rigg: A Bronze-Age landscape revealed by a recent heather burn, by Stephen Eastmead and Tim Laurie.
See also a SWAAG database entries Ring Cairns (record no. 392), Burial Mounds and Cairns (record nos. 393 and 841), and Settlements 1 (record no. 394), Coaxial Field Systems (record no. 773, image 25).
