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<< Our Photo Pages >> Woodbarrow (Glos) - Chambered Tomb in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 24 September 2002  Page Views: 4214

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Woodbarrow (Glos) Alternative Name: Chedworth II
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.855 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gloucestershire Type: Chambered Tomb

Map Ref: SP067123  Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.809297N  Longitude: 1.904223W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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4clydesdale7 visited on 14th Jul 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4 Look carefully and you will see its outline - very badly damaged

Woodbarrow (Glos)
Woodbarrow (Glos) submitted by Mr_Nakajima : On a trip to the Cotswolds to look at barrows in November 2006 I decided to visit some of the lesser-known ones. Woodbarrow is situated on a gentle slope with excellent views across the Cotswolds to the east. The barrow itself is very eroded, I estimate no more than half a meter high, and without a map would be very difficult to find. The barrow is under grass in the corner of a ploughed f... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Badly damaged long mound with possible Chambered Tomb in Gloucestershire

Antiquarians in the 18th Century referred to a chambered tomb within this now badly damaged mound.

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Woodbarrow (Glos) submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking across to Royal Oak round barrow. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Woodbarrow (Glos) submitted by HarryTwenty : North end of the barrow looking west. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Woodbarrow (Glos) submitted by HarryTwenty : Middle of the barrow looking south. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Woodbarrow (Glos) submitted by HarryTwenty : North end of the barrow looking north. Royal Oak round barrow can just be seen above the wall between the two trees on the left. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Woodbarrow (Glos) submitted by HarryTwenty : Standing in the middle of the long barrow looking north, Royal Oak barrow is over the road on the left. The slope of the barrow can be seen better on the ground. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Woodbarrow (Glos) submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking east along the road to the barrows, Woodbarrow is over the wall on the right and Royal Oak round barrow is just behind me to the left. The barrows are more visible on the ground than in the photos.

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Woodbarrow (Glos) submitted by 4clydesdale7 : Looking S from the road over the Barrow and Listercombe towards Bleakmoor

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Re: Woodbarrow (Glos) by HarryTwenty on Saturday, 13 January 2024
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Description from the twentytrees website:

Woodbarrow

Gloucestershire, 35 S.E. Parish of Chedworth. 58*.

Latitude 51° 48' 31". Longitude 1° 54' 10"- Height above O.D. about 640 feet.


Not mentioned by Witts.

Visited December 22nd, 1920. It lies in a ploughed field called Woodbarrow. I was told by the two ploughboys at work in the field that this was its name ; and that the field immediately opposite on the N. side of the road was called "Royal Oak" ("because there is an oak on the edge of the wood which comes out a fortnight before the other," added Frederick Norman, who confirmed these names to me) barrow is about 210 feet long and is oriented N. and S. Its present height is not more than 2 to 3 feet. (A subsequent examination of Isaac Taylor's Map of Gloucestershire, 1777, reveals the fact that it was known as "Wood Barrow" then, and was sufficiently high and conspicuous to be shown as a hachured mound).

In Gough's Camden is the following account:- "On the hill, a little above the bath (a Roman hypocaust in Listercombe), is a large tumulus which had a huge rough stone set upright; which being lately removed, exposed great quantities of human bones lying near the top of the barrow."

Gough's Camden, Vol. i., 1789, p. 281.

Rudder, p. 334.

(www.twentytrees.co.uk/History/Prehistory/Thing/Cotswolds-Neolithic-Tombs.html?0LwxmM4L)
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Re: Woodbarrow (Glos) by 4clydesdale7 on Friday, 15 July 2011
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Unfortunately very badly damaged but there are perceptible bits of outline if you look carefully - can be enjoyed from the road
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