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<< Our Photo Pages >> Woodleaze Bowl Barrow - Round Barrow(s) in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Friday, 19 April 2013  Page Views: 2234

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Woodleaze Bowl Barrow Alternative Name: Kingscote 2, Kingscote Round Barrow
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.02 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Gloucestershire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Nailsworth  Nearest Village: Kingscote
Map Ref: ST82489757
Latitude: 51.676620N  Longitude: 2.254775W
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
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
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.
4 Accuracy:
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 19th Apr 2013 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Is this a Bronze Age Bowl Barrow or a Quarry Spoil Heap? Nice walk

Woodleaze Bowl Barrow
Woodleaze Bowl Barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The Bowl/Round Barrow fom ESE - the old Stone Quarry is beneath the tree behind! (and is about 2m deep) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Round Barrow in Gloucestershire

It seems extraordinary that the renowned Victorian amateur Archaeologist G F Playne (a remarkably well to do local millowner) of Minchinhampton (a) failed to find a much larger Long Barrow just 300m to the west (b) and on reporting his discovery of this Bronze Age Bowl Barrow to local worthies of the Cotteswolde Naturalists Field Club in 1868 seemed to boast of the serious damage his excavations caused. All he found whilst digging away furiously was one small potsherd and two ox bones!

His discoveries were later reported by the noted George Witts in his Archaeological Handbook of the County of Gloucester 1887. Round Barrow No.11 and Marjorie Crook of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society Proceedings 1927.

Then confusion began - the Ordnance Survey wrongly plotted the map reference and everyone got lost between Kingscote and Horsley looking for this (then) difficult site to find.

Matters were all put to right by H O'Neill and L V Grinsell in their paper on Gloucestershire Round Barrows reported in the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society in 1960 Vol79 at page 119. The famed 'pastscape spy in the sky' was unable to recover any decent aerial photographic evidence and thus doubts began - but the post 1960 OS maps were amended and verified.

But alas someone failed to notice that there is a medieval small field quarry just 20m to the west! Now although pastscape still waxes lyrical about a Bronze Age Bowl Barrow opinion locally is that the very very small rise of the mound/barrow is formed by stone quarry spoil. The very noticeable density of stone brash in a circle about 12m in diameter standing about 1ft high gives evidence that applies equally to both theories. So is the site the remains of a Bowl Barrow or of a Spoil Heap? Oh and by the way they all kept missing the Long Barrow 300m to the west.
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Woodleaze Bowl Barrow
Woodleaze Bowl Barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The Bowl/Round Barrow from the SW. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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ST8197 : Stone Stile, Kingscote by Ian Kenny Roberts
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ST8197 : Kingscote Wood from Binley Farm by Symon Parsley
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