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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bicester Burial MoundsCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 3.006 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Oxfordshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Bicester
Map Ref: SP576223
Latitude: 51.896280N Longitude: 1.164325W
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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BarryC visited on 21st Sep 2022 - their rating: Cond: -1 Amb: 3 Access: 4 I visited primarily to take a photograph of the location, for uploading, but not expecting to see anything. In that, I wasn't disappointed: nothing to be seen *at all*, not even an information board or marker, which I had half-hoped for.
Checked location from available archaeological reports online - looks to be correct, albeit part of a larger area of excavations which have now totally disappeared under a massive housing estate which seemed to appear over 'lockdown'. Disappointing, but at least it was excavated before disappearing forever.
Experts dug 134 trenches between July and September and found archaeological remains in 41 of them.
As well as the burial mounds, which could be up to 5,500 years old, they found a bronze age palstave (an axe head), an iron age settlement with a possible hearth, a Roman settlement and quarries and what is believed to be a saxon ditch.
Experts from Wessex Archaeology have recommended the burial mounds, which measure 32m and 21m across, be protected by a 50m no-build buffer zone.
Council planning officer Jenny Barker said developers had redrawn their plans so the mounds would be beneath the playing field of one of the proposed primary schools. She added the secondary school and the health village had also been moved.
She said: "These mounds have been identified as significant and, in fact, significant enough that they should not be disturbed."
In its report, Countryside Properties said: "The intention is to impose a 50m buffer around these two sites to ensure no infrastructure works take place that would damage these remains of national importance.
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