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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cherry Garden Hill BarrowCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.4 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Kent Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Folkstone
Map Ref: TR20833801
Latitude: 51.098848N Longitude: 1.152660E
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 |
| 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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Brian_Eyes visited on 31st May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 It has a WW2 pillbox on top. Nice spot, worth a visit. About an hour's walk from Folkestone West rail station.
Tumulus in Folkstone. This might be the one that had a pillbox built into during the Second World War which destroyed the central inhumation.
Mention of the barrow here. From Exploring Kent's Past: "Cherry Gardens Hill Tumulus, on the property of the Folkestone Waterworks Company. A primary crouched interment was found in the centre of the tumulus, with the body aligned east-west. It was probably male and c.25-35 years old at its death, and c.5' 7" tall. A small piece of rough ironstone was found at the feet, c. eighteen inches above the skeleton was a thin slab of Folkestone stone, broken, but probably shaped on three sides. The skeleton was surrounded by a blackish layer, but with no evidence of fire. A secondary burial aligned north-west to south-east was found on the edge of the tumulus . The barrow was slightly damaged by the construction of a pillbox on its summit in 1940. The barrow is now c. 1.3m high and is still crowned by the pillbox; its perimeter has been enlarged by spoil from the 1940 digging. The bones from the primary interment are in Folkestone Museum; the other finds cannot be traced." http://extranet7.kent.gov.uk/ExploringKentsPast/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MKE5584
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