White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell

White Raise is a large round cairn on Divock Moor, about two kilometres west of Helton village in Cumbria. The Bronze Age mound still stands nearly two metres high and spans about twenty metres across. It lies south of the Heughscar Hills, close to the Cop Stone boulder and the Pulpit Holes of a group of dolines. The cairn’s main feature is an open rectangular stone cist near its centre. Four upright stones form a box roughly 120 centimetres long, 50 centimetres wide and 40 centimetres deep. When archaeologists opened the cist they found a crouched skeleton inside. Visitors walk across open moorland to reach the site, with wide views over the surrounding fells. The Cop Stone stands nearby, a striking glacial erratic, while the Pulpit Holes show how the limestone has dissolved into shallow hollows. The cairn itself is a low, grassy mound, its edges softened by centuries of weather and grazing.