Devil's Lapful | |
Map Type: | Northumberland |
Map Size: | 200 |
Coordinates: | 55.2287°N -2.5645°W |
Gbgridref: | NY 642 929 |
Designation1: | Scheduled monument |
Designation1 Number: | 1009666 |
Designation1 Date: | 15 November 1994 |
Devil's Lapful is an archaeological site in Northumberland, England, in Kielder Forest about 0.8miles south-east of Kielder. The site, a Neolithic long cairn, is a scheduled monument.
The cairn is one of few surviving long cairns in Northumberland. It is on the south-west slope of a hill, and is orientated north-north-east to south-south-west. It is constructed of rounded boulders with some stone slabs, and with smaller stones at the edges; it measures 60by, and is high. There has been some later quarrying to make a sheep fold, which is next to the cairn on the north-west.
Monuments such as this are thought to date from the Early to Middle Neolithic (about 3400–2400 BC); they were probably burials sites for a local community over several generations.