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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: The Island (Rugby School)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.281 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Warwickshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Rugby
Map Ref: SP50367477
Latitude: 52.368672N Longitude: 1.261779W
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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"The Island" is an impressive mound easily seen from the road.
Pastscape describes it as; "A possible motte, originally surrounded by a moat that was infilled in 1847. It has also been suggested that this was a barrow or moated site. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument." (List entry Number: 1002986)
The website gatehouse-gazetteer.info says: "the original nature of 'The Island' is uncertain. It could have been a BA barrow, a small motte, or even a mound constructed specifically for meditation by the monks of the Grange."
My mother is a local historian and has several old documents relating to 'the island' which support the claim that it is an ancient tumulus (images below). And on 19th Century maps it is marked as a tumulus.
For more information also see Pastscape Monument ID. 340198 which adds: The monks of Pipewell Abbey who had a grange here (SP 57 SW 4) "surrounded the ancient tumulus in the close with a moat, throwing the earth inwards and enlarging the space. This moat was filled from the land springs on the upper strata of the gravel .... O.W. Wait (1886) describes 'the island' as having a small ditch, but says that in 1797 this ditch was "a moat from 4' to 6' wide, and full of water. A wooden drawbridge with a spiked gate in the centre, crossed this at the place where the cricket pavillion now stands."
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