<< Our Photo Pages >> Felton Hill Long Barrow T26 - Chambered Tomb in England in Somerset
Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 Page Views: 5371
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Felton Hill Long Barrow T26Country: England County: Somerset Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Winford Nearest Village: Felton
Map Ref: ST51626491
Latitude: 51.381166N Longitude: 2.696555W
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 |
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4clydesdale7 visited on 25th Apr 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 This is not a Long Barrow, a Chambered Cairn or a Windmill mound but probably an Oval Bowl/Round Barrow
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E K Tratman of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society proudly proclaimed in his 1925 Paper published in the Society's proceedings 1926 Vol 2 p 278/9 that 'in the future this barrow will be called the Felton Hill Long Barrow' - this was prior to the birth of English Heritage and its progeny the pastscape website which states quite categorically this is not a long barrow but a bowl barrow or possibly a windmill mound - there is an extant converted windmill but 200m to the west of this mound - so perhaps there has been poor map reading - both lie beneath a Bristol Airport fly path -
To give some credit to EH, today the barrow looks more like a bowl barrow and local folklore suggests that this and the two barrows (T28 & T29) (to the east) were at one time called 'The Mountains' and regarded as a threesome - there is also in the area a Barrow Cemetery at Redhill just to the West - somewhere between T26 T28 & T29 lies the elusive Suck Stone
Unlike its two 'sisters' this Barrow does not have a ditch (unlike most Long Barrows) - Tratman stated the Barrow's measurements were 58' Long 46'/40' Wide (tapering) and 4' High - but these measurements do not adhere today - the stones within the Barrow are more likely to have been dumped there as part of medieval quarrying/field clearance - so no doubt the debate will continue
pastscape North Somerset: Winford; 198087
UBSS 1926 Vol2 p 278/9
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