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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Oster Hill (West Haddon) Alternative Name: Oster HillCountry: England County: Northamptonshire Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Guisborough Nearest Village: West Haddon
Map Ref: SP64157145
Latitude: 52.337391N Longitude: 1.059903W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Cairn in Northamptonshire
This now destroyed tumulus is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 341985, which says: "Ostor Hill was supposed by Bridges to be the tumulus of Publius Ostorius. The ONB is destroyed and no evidence can be found that there was ever, in fact, a tumulus. Bridges (and his informants) may have been influenced simply by the place name, although, according to the English Place Names Society it is probably of Scandinavian origin - "austr" meaning "east". There is no tumulus shown in this area on OS 1st editions. There are no surface indications of a barrow either on the hill or in the immediate vicinity."
This tumulus is also featured on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) as Ostor Hill, West Haddon, Northamptonshire, which says: "At the northeastern edge of Torkington Lodge, nearly a mile east of West Haddon, the antiquarian John Bridge (1791) told of the existence of prehistoric barrow that was still visible here around the year 1720. Described by the Royal Commission lads (1981), when they visited the site they found that “no trace of a mound exists.” Just a few years earlier the place-name analysts, Gover, Mawer & Stenton (1975) told that: “There is a tumulus here and it would seem most likely that the name goes back to Old Scandinavian austr, ‘east’, and haugr, hence “eastern barrow.”
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