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Rock ArtSite Name: Pool Farm CistCountry: 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:
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 |
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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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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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