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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Axwell Park BarrowCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.034 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Tyne and Wear Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Blaydon Nearest Village: Axwell Park
Map Ref: NZ19196188
Latitude: 54.951204N Longitude: 1.701911W
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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TakNe visited on 15th Mar 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Viewing this page and comments on this site I became convinced that previous visitors were looking in the wrong place. I followed the exact co-ordinates using Google Maps and found the burial mound easily. This was in mid March 2022. Perhaps later in the year forest growth could make this site hard to find. But the circular mound was quite obvious from an informal path leading from the road.
The burial mound appears smaller than some descriptions but has retained its shape well. There is a small pit on the very top. This could be from a fallen tree or perhaps someone digging. Possibly from the 1763 excavation that exposed the stone coffin and pot but I imagine this would have naturally filled in or eroded away by now. More likely this is a relatively modern feature.
Anne T couldn't find on 23rd Apr 2017 - their rating: Amb: 2 Access: 5 Axwell Park Tumulus, Gateshead: OK, even with the grid reference, we couldn't find any trace of this - not surprising, since checking the Pastscape records this morning (24th April), they say no trace of the mound exists! There were lots and lots of humps and hollows on the slope to the left of the path as you walk up the hill. The area seems to be part of an estate and has been heavily modified, with an artificial waterfall and stone-lined channels for water visible in the undergrowth.
This area today is on the edge of a modern housing estate, which is still being constructed. The only thing I can say about this is that it is an easy walk up through the park on tarmacked road.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Ambience: 2.5 Access: 4.5
The text from the Tyne and Wear HER follows, slightly edited and updated.
HER 504
NZ19196188
In 1952 the Ordnance Survey recorded a mound in Axwell Park, and gave its dimensions as 9.30 m diameter east-west, 8.70 m north-south, and 0.80 m high. It has been suggested as a possible prehistoric burial mound, and it is interesting to note that what was almost certainly a prehistoric burial with pot (HER 505) was found in Axwell Park in 1763. It was not visible when the site was visited in the mid-1970s. (The area was then thickly covered in rhododendrons- JLD).
HER 505
On March 11th 1763 workmen discovered an urn with a little dust in it inside a large stone coffin, in which was a skull with the teeth very fresh, and several large bones. It is not known in what part of the grounds the coffin was found, and it is uncertain what became of it. It is assumed that this was probably a prehistoric burial, probably dating to the Bronze Age. See HER no. 504, a possible barrow in the Park.
Update April 2017: See Pastscape Monument No 22938, which says that the area in which the mound was last seen has now been heavily quarried over the last 20 years; it may have been removed or covered by dense undergrowth.
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