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Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Thursday, 01 December 2011 Page Views: 4998
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: The Golden Coffin (Far Oakridge) Alternative Name: Bisley 7Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.206 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gloucestershire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Stroud Nearest Village: Bisley: Oakridge
Map Ref: SO92620388
Latitude: 51.733581N Longitude: 2.108265W
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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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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3 | Ordinary |
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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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4clydesdale7 visited on 1st Dec 2011 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Definitely a plundered Round Barrow - not so sure about the Roman General buried in a Golden Coffin - I came here not to bury Caeser but to .......
The archaeological world knew almost nothing of the tiny hamlet of Far Oakridge (one of the five hamlets that make up the present day village of Oakridge which lies in the SE corner of the Parish of Bisley-with-Lyppiatt near Chalford) when in 1928 the Rev R. Jowett Burton delivered a paper to the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society entitled 'The Archaeology of Bisley Hundred'. He was seeking to update the work of G. Witts - perhaps a little bit of one-upmanship -
He reported that he had been made aware of a triangular field N of Oakridge called the Field of the Golden Coffin in which there were the remains of a Bronze Age Round Barrow which had been badly disturbed in the past in vain attempts to find valuable treasure which had been buried with a Roman General. - No-one has been able to find any previous historical reference to this Barrow (but somehow someone got there before you Jowett!!)
Little is known about Oakridge prior to 1700 other than the fact the area was substantial woodland owned (where else?) by the local manor. Oakridge was by then a Woodland Common but had recently been the object of squatting by weavers and cloth makers from Stroud (these were troubled times in the local woollen industry) -
L.V.Grinsell repeated the folklore in his work Ancient Burial Mounds of England - p.68 (1953) and his later joint presentation with H O'Neil to BGAS on Glos Barrows in 1960 Vol.79 p.104 but had discarded the Barrow by the time of his joint work with T.C.Darvill (to BGAS in 1989 Vol 107)
Now along come EH with their pastscape website Monument No. 117314 who seem to have some difficulty finding anyone in Oakridge who has heard of the named field - strange, they cannot have tried too hard. Today, 1/12/11, I spoke with a lady who used to rent the field - the tenancy even referred to the land as 'the Coffin Field'
The crescent shaped mound is about 22m in diameter. It has been dug into on the S side and stands about 0.3m high. It does not photograph too well but if you compare the field level with the hedges in the background a pronounced mound can be seen - no treasure but a nice cup of tea!
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