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***SWAAG_ID***	841
Date Entered	16/12/2014
Updated on	01/01/2015
Recorded by	Tim Laurie
Category	Burial Mounds and Cairns
Record Type	Archaeology
Site Access	Army Range
Record Date	15/12/2014
Location	Ellerton Moor. Juniper Gill.
Civil Parish	Ellerton Abbey
Brit. National Grid	SE 0700 9600
Altitude	350m
Geology	Glacial drift over Namurian chert strata above the Main Limestone.
Record Name	Juniper Gill revisited. Round Cairn, cairnfield settlement and coaxial field system complex.
Record Description	Following an extensive moorland blaze which has revealed the extensive remains of the Bronze Age Settlement Complex recorded previously as SWAAG Records 392, 393 and 394 which were previously masked in thick heather, the area was visited by three representative members of SWAAG in company with Phil Abramson, Defence Estates Archaeologist, as a reconnaissance preliminary to detailed GPS survey to record the remains exposed by the fire and the remaining area of the Bronze Age Cairnfield Settlement Complex (this GPS Survey is to be carried out by Stephen Eastmead with Tim Laurie preparing the supporting Gazetteer on behalf of SWAAG). These settlement remains are at an exposed location at 360m AOD on the high moorland spur above the western side of Juniper Gill. The wider survey of the as yet unrecorded but similar prehistoric landscape and also the very extensive and interesting Mining Remains on Ellerton Moor and on Stainton Moor will be completed in due course by T.C.L in his capacity as Archaeological Advisor on the CTA Conservation Group, working in collaboration with Stephen Eastmead and other members of SWAAG . On 15th January the purpose of the visit was to obtain an aerial photographic view of these settlement remains by use of an advance prototype 'octocoptic' drone, ie a small flying bedstead apparatus with eight propellers designed and operated by University of Leeds researchers, see photos.
Dimensions	See photos
Additional Notes	Following the onset of rain and departure of the Flying Bedstead Pilots and Phil Abramson, A walk over the site confirmed that the burnt area of cairnfield and unenclosed round house settlement together with the associate coaxial field boundary system was more extensive and many more cairns were recognised than originally recorded by myself when the site was masked by thick heather more than twenty years ago, See SWAAG Records Nos 392,393 and 394.
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Image 1 Description	Where is the thing?
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Image 2 Description	It is just a pretty toy but it lurks buzzing above bronze age cairns only half a mile away
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Image 3 Description	On instructions from its master it flies back obediently.
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Image 4 Description	Good catch, the little thing returns to its masters hand.
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Image 5 Description	Phil gazes in astonishment at the real thing which waits its orders.
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Image 6 Description	All eight propellers unfolded and almost ready to fly.
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Image 7 Description	The beast is assembled ...
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Image 8 Description	... to be given the kiss of computered life and brought into action.
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Image 9 Description	Away it flies
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Image 10 Description	On Mission into the wild blue yonder
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Image 11 Description	Ellerton Moor. Original Survey (TCL 1994 unpublished) of main sites eastward from the western limit of the Army Ranges at Hags Gill, including features then visible in thick heather at Juniper Gill including 20 cairns, several ring cairns and the standing stone at Juniper Gill.
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Image 12 Description	Line and offset plan (TCL pre- 1994, unpublished) of the Ring Cairn on the western edge of Juniper Gill, subsequently designated a Scheduled Monument under the Monuments Protection Scheme.
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Image 13 Description	Small ring cairn revealed by the recent burn.
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Image 14 Description	THe same feature
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Image 15 Description	Three aligned stone round cairns and view eastward and down towards lower Swaledale.
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Image 16 Description	Substantial field bank revealed by the recent burn.
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Image 17 Description	Possible offset entrance through the same field bank.
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Image 18 Description	Very large round cairn located on the edge of the escarpment at the point where a clear view first becomes possible north-westward through Arkengarthdale and across Stainmore towards the Vale of Eden.
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Image 19 Description	The same cairn. This cairn was constructed over several radial stone banks which protrude beyond the perimeter of the cairn. This feature has been noted at several similar cairns elsewhere in the Pennine Uplands.
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Image 20 Description	Octocopter on mission
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Image 21 Description	Octocopter on mission
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Image 22 Description	Octocopter on mission
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Image 23 Description	Octocopter on mission
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Image 24 Description	Octocopter on mission
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Image 25 Description	Octocopter on mission
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Image 26 Description	Octocopter on mission
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Image 27 Description	Octocopter on mission
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Image 28 Description	Octocopter on mission
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Image 29 Description	Mission complete!