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<< Our Photo Pages >> Bitton Round Barrow - Round Barrow(s) in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Friday, 07 September 2012  Page Views: 5731

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bitton Round Barrow Alternative Name: Bitton 1, Bitton Bell Barrow
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.778 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Gloucestershire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Bristol  Nearest Village: Bitton
Map Ref: ST67806945
Latitude: 51.423138N  Longitude: 2.46449W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 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.
4 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
5

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4clydesdale7 visited on 6th Sep 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4 Take one stable owner with several reels of electric fencing making horse pens, combine him/her with the local badger community and what do you get? - a seriously damaged round/bell barrow fast becoming an eyesore - never mind the potential for an electric shock even on the Public Footpath!!! Pity because the older part of Bitton can be quite pretty - never mind the Boyd and Avon Valleys

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Bitton Round Barrow
Bitton Round Barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The best view of the Barrow looking from WNW towards Bitton Church (Vote or comment on this photo)
Opinion has been very much divided over the years as to whether this site is a simple Round Barrow or a Bell Barrow - unfortunately the site has been so ravaged by man and badgers that the dichotomy is unlikely to be resolved - Bitton itself lies astride the Roman Via Julia about 1 mile WNW of one of the rare ancient fords across the River Avon, at Swineford - the site lies on a small hill (aptly named Barrow Hill) nestling in a shallow bend in the Avon northeast of the disused Bath to Mangotsfield railway (now a footpath frequented by many cyclists).

The Barrow is about 30m in diameter and 2m high but the ambience is poor with the rather forlorn mound surrounded by an electrical web marking mini 'horse paddocks' - close by is the doubtful Bitton Camp and to the south of Bitton and west of Swineford lie two fields Holm Mead and Mickle Mead forming the north bank of the Avon littered with old stones - almost immediately across the Avon (in Somerset) lies a Saxon Burial Ground.

Mentioned in the Transactions of Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 1960 Vol 79 part 1 p 104 and on the pastscape website South Gloucestershire: Bitton: 200847

from mishkin
Bitton Barrow is a large round barrow situated at the confluence of the River Boyd and Avon. This barrow is near to the Roman 'Via Julia' road, and it is said that there is a "heathen temple" situated somewhere by the church in the background. Also, marked on a 19th century map were several stones (now disappeared) in a field very close to the barrow; the field is called Mickle Mead and there is an Anglo Saxon burial ground marked on the map just across the river.
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Bitton Round Barrow
Bitton Round Barrow submitted by TheCaptain : Combining of several interests in one picture. Viewed from the Bristol to Bath cycle path, or the Avon Valley Railway, whichever you prefer, Bitton Round Barrow at the left of the picture, with North Stoke hillfort in the background behind the church tower. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bitton Round Barrow
Bitton Round Barrow submitted by TheCaptain : Viewed from the Bristol to Bath cycle path, or the Avon Valley Railway, whichever you prefer, Bitton Round Barrow in the foreground, with North Stoke hillfort in the background behind and church tower. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bitton Round Barrow
Bitton Round Barrow submitted by TheCaptain : Bitton Round Barrow and Horses (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bitton Round Barrow
Bitton Round Barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 : A close up of the Badgers' work from the SE (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bitton Round Barrow
Bitton Round Barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The rather forlorn barrow on approach from ESE

Bitton Round Barrow
Bitton Round Barrow submitted by mishkin : Bitton Barrow with the church in the background.

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