What is recorded here
Butlersgrange hides a cist beneath a struck stone, revealing death only after lightening broke the visible world in 1903. The storm did not destroy the place; it displaced the stone and exposed what the land had been holding. People may have buried their dead there long before the sky betrayed the secret.
According to local information a standing stone (CW009-041----) was hit by lightening in 1903 and damaged and in the process of re-erecting it a 'cave of bones' or 'cist', was found underneath it.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 August 2011
A Neolithic cist tomb, likely dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in the rare local evidence of early burial practices and possible ritual associations with the standing stone.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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