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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pool Farm Cist - Rock Art in England in Somerset

Submitted by vicky on Monday, 27 September 2004  Page Views: 12109

Rock ArtSite Name: Pool Farm Cist
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.145 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Somerset Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Wells
Map Ref: ST53745415  Landranger Map Number: 182
Latitude: 51.284599N  Longitude: 2.664694W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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.
3 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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Pool Farm Cist
Pool Farm Cist submitted by Aerial-Cam : The decorated Cist slab as displayed in Bristol Museum. Originally in position on the south (or sw) side of the Pool Farm Cist, which was contained within a round barrow. Excavation revealed the cremated remains of a child and an adult. Unfortunately when the carvings of cup marks and feet were eventually noticed, they were painted red to make them stand out. However these carvings do have similar... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cup and Ring Marked Stone in Somerset

This cup and ring stone/tomb is featured in The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their entry for Pool Farm, Priddy, Somerset, which gives directons for finding this cup and ring marked stone (it's in the Bristol City Museum), together with a 1957 drawing of the carved slab, the earliest known photograph of the slab and a detailed archaeology & history. TNA adds: "An intriguing carved slab at the very least! We can say with some certainty that this old tomb was of considerable importance to the people who built and lived around it in the centuries that followed (ancestral spirits and all that). It may have been a tomb of an important tribal elder, shaman or queen — though we may never truly know. But one thing which local archaeologists and antiquarians need to keep their eyes open for when opening any more burial sites in and around this region, are other examples of rock art, for the rule tends to be: where there’s one carving, others are close by! So wherefore art the others…?"

This site is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 197638, an early entry from the 1930s telling us: "a Bronze Age barrow 100 ft. across and 3' 9" high, at Pool Farm, West Harptree, was excavated Sept./Oct. 1930. A stone cist, 5' 6" x 4' 6" and 2' 6" high with capstone and paved floor, situated 2ft. east of the barrow centre, contained a cremation (now in Taunton Museum). A further cutting, 40 ft. from the centre, showed the barrow to be ditchless, whilst two flint flakes, a flint scraper, and fragments of late glazed ware were found. The whole barrow was removed in March 1931, the material used for road widening, and the cist left in situ."

The Pastscape entry continues: "On the 9th of May, 1956, the S.W. slab of the cist, now in the City Museum, Bristol, was found to bear six carvings of feet in sunk relief, and nine or ten cup marks .... Other foot-carvings from prehistoric sepulchral contexts are rare, the other known examples in this country being at Calderstones, near Liverpool (on stones of a chambered tomb), and Harbottle Peels near Alwinton, Northumberland (NT 945050 - on stone cist) ... Only the cist, at ST 53745415, remains, nothing being visible of the barrow (Grinsells West Harptree 8). The S.W. slab of the cist has been replaced by a cast copy, the original being in the City Museum, Bristol."

Note: This is a copy - the original slab is in Bristol Museum.
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Pool Farm Cist
Pool Farm Cist submitted by Bladup : After sunset with sleet at Pool Farm Cist. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pool Farm Cist
Pool Farm Cist submitted by Bladup : Pool Farm Cist. After dark, cold and wet. Last time I was here it was the exact opposite - sunny, warm and dry. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pool Farm Cist
Pool Farm Cist submitted by Bladup : Pool Farm Cist. Re-visiting here made me realize just how many places I've been (like here) and didn't take any photos (didn't even have a camera). This then made me think of how much my reasons to visit have changed and how nowadays I always try to have a camera with me. Now do I re-visit all these places for a photo or do I leave it in the past (and my mind) and stick to new (to me) places? (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pool Farm Cist
Pool Farm Cist submitted by Bladup : Pool Farm Cist, this photo shows the reproduction cist cover (with plaque), it was after dark and wet. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pool Farm Cist
Pool Farm Cist submitted by TheCaptain : I was walking through the field with the public footpath through it, when I heard a commotion and looked around to see about 50 bullocks running over to me, snorting and grunting as they ran. Rather quickly, I legged it to the nearest gate, and fairly quickly vaulted it (remarkably so for a 50 year old with a still damaged shoulder)! I guess they were only curious, but as I walked along...

Pool Farm Cist
Pool Farm Cist submitted by mose : Jodie Lewis explaining whats what at Pool Farm Cist The concrete replica is the big vertical slab on the right taken during Mendip Society guided walk by Dr Jodie Lewis (UC Worcester), July 2003(or2002) Also see Priddy Circles posting We think that this is more people than have visited this site since they were in regular ritual use, prob 3000yr ago! Jodie will be doing another walk in ...

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Re: visiting Pool Farm Cist - Beware! by TheCaptain on Thursday, 23 June 2011
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Last Sunday I was walking through the field with the public footpath through it, when I heard a commotion and looked around to see about 50 bullocks running over towards me, snorting and grunting as they ran.

Rather quickly, I legged it to the nearest gate, and rapidly vaulted it (remarkably so for a 50 year old with a damaged shoulder)!

I guess they were only curious, but as I walked along the adjoining field they kept following me, and would not go away. Trip to Pool Farm Cist abandoned.
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    Re: visiting Pool Farm Cist - Beware! by MikeAitch on Thursday, 23 June 2011
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    Nothing like a herd of running bullocks to quicken the pace! ;)
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visibility of Cist by Mose on Friday, 11 March 2005
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it is not obvious, with only about 0.5m showing above ground - it is about 100m away from the farm track
Apart from one, the feet on the concrete replica are visible only with the eye of faith!
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Re: Pool Farm Cist by MarionBenham on Thursday, 16 October 2003
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I tried to find this site but it wasn't marked on my map and I wasn't sure what I was looking for! I later found a replica of the carved cover in Wells museum in the prehistoric room-it has several cup marks and strange long toed feet of different sizes plus an odd shape like a rectangle with two points on one side. There was a small photo of the cist (looking very easy to see in the middle of a flat field!) and some notes on the history of the cist and its discovery.I'll take a note book and some pics next time I visit the museum!
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    Re: Pool Farm Cist by Mose on Friday, 11 March 2005
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    pl see my recent posting
    It is not obvious, being only about 0.5m high
    Apart from one,the feet on the concrete replica are visible with the eye of faith
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