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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kings LowCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.036 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Staffordshire Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Stafford Nearest Village: Tixall
Map Ref: SJ9567023990
Latitude: 52.813440N Longitude: 2.06567W
Condition:
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| 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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| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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On Tixall Heath, King's Low, is situated in Blackheath Covert just north-west of the road between Ingestre and Stafford. It is 120 feet in diameter and survives to a height of 9 feet.
It was excavated by the Stoke on Trent Museum Archaeological Society between 1986 and 1992 and the results published in West Midlands Archaeology in 1986 and 1987. All of the finds are held at Stoke on Trent City Museum and Art Gallery.
Excavation history is documented in
Excavations at King's Low and Queen's Low: Two Early Bronze Age Barrows in Tixall, North Staffordshire, Jan 2014, Dick Spicer, Hollins Winston, Gary R. Lock.
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