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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ventner's Hall Cairn (1) Alternative Name: Ventner's Hall Robbed CairnCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.479 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Northumberland Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Haltwhistle Nearest Village: Once Brewed
Map Ref: NY71696841
Latitude: 55.009436N Longitude: 2.444187W
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 |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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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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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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SolarMegalith visited on 18th Jul 2016 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4
This oval cairn, recorded as HER ID 24608, measures approximately 5 metres by 4 metres, with a depression in the centre, indicating it may have been robbed at some time in the past.
Sitting just to the south of Pont Gallon Burn, it is listed as a prehistoric funerary cairn. We had the honour of walking to this site on a field day with archaeologist Tim Gates, who carried out extensive aerial photography on the Hadrian's Wall landscape from Chesters to Greenhead back in 1999. Tim thinks the cairn was robbed for stone for building. Nearby there is a recently discovered rock art stone with a number of cup marks, the location of which needs to remain under wraps until it is officially recorded.
To the south, near Ventner's Hall, there are clear outlines of two pairs of timber built round houses with associated field systems, first identified from Tim's aerial photographs. To the north west, we believe we may have found another pair of roundhouses, which will be looked at in further detail in a Level 3 survey later this year. A Roman Aqueduct also wends it way across this landscape, clearly visible in some parts, completely hidden in others.
A very interesting place to walk.
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