<< Our Photo Pages >> Hawkesbury Knoll - Long Barrow in England in Gloucestershire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hawkesbury Knoll Alternative Name: Hawkesbury ICountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.395 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gloucestershire Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Chipping Sodbury Nearest Village: Hawkesbury
Map Ref: ST76838722 Landranger Map Number: 172
Latitude: 51.583357N Longitude: 2.335796W
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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Spiderdrone visited on 8th Oct 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 As you can't get too close the knoll, I took some aerial photos of the area.
I picked this up on route to the well by the church.
TheCaptain saw from a distance on 7th Aug 2020 Seen up on the top of the Cotswold Edge during a hot and humid Friday afternoon 11k walk, north from Hawkesbury Upton to the monument, then down the Cotswold Edge to Inglestone Common, south to Hawkesbury Common and on to Horton Court before going back up the Cotswold Edge and along the Cotswold Way andd "Yellow Brick Road" to Hawkesbury and a pint at the Beaufort Arms afterwards.
TheCaptain have visited here
It is aligned in a north to south direction, is probably a couple of metres in height, and has a very rocky consistency. A large amount of the northern end has been quarried away.
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