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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Botley StoneCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.762 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Shropshire Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Church Stretton Nearest Village: Hamperley
Map Ref: SO408896
Latitude: 52.501072N Longitude: 2.873522W
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 |
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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 |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Botley Stone is classified as the remains of a Bronze Age ring cairn. What is visible now, is a hollowed out grass ring; upon closer inspection a good number of angular rocks are visible under the grass. Ring cairns are very rare in Shropshire, and given that all other burial monuments upon The Long Mynd are barrows comprised of earth (some with varying degrees of stones or kerbing surviving) of, this ring cairn is remarkably unusual in the area.
The monument is surprisingly small, and its ring appearance may be due stone robbing from the centre, similar to that of the possible ring cairn upon Stapeley Hill to the west, making it more akin to the quartzite cairns on The Stiperstones ridge between The Long Mynd and Stapeley Hill.
The cairn sits upon a flat part of Churchmoor Hill, a little to the northwest of a right-angle in the forest boundary. It is adjacent the footpath and Bike:UK trail. If visiting from the north, accessing via the Midland Gliding Club, take note of the warning signs regarding health and safety concerning the gliders
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