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Photo Pages: Stoney Littleton - Chambered Cairn in England in Somerset
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Submitted by Thorgrim on Wednesday, 15 October 2003 Page Views: 10258
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 Site Name: Stoney Littleton Country: England County: Somerset Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Bath Nearest Village: Wellow
Map Ref: ST735572 Landranger Map Number: 172
Latitude: 51.313289N Longitude: 2.381597W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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 | | 0 | no data |
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Chambered Cairn in Somerset
James Dyer describes the Stoney Littleton long barrow as "the most notable chambered long-barrow in south-western England" - and I agree with him! It is simply superb. About 30m in length and 15m wide at the south-east end, it stands nearly 3m high. There is a horned entrance with a magical ammonite cast on the western door-jamb. This fossil must have been found and specially placed here as something of real significance. Was it seen as a stone serpent or perhaps such fossils gave rise to legends of dragons? The entrance leads to a gallery 16m long, but only 1m high. A torch is required to look into the three pairs of side chambers and an end chamber.
Access is greatly improved as a new, but very narrow track has been made from Wellow which leads to a small car park. Then there is a style and a clearly marked path around two fields. The setting is breathtaking with the barrow being sited on a round topped hill surrounded by wide valleys and low hills in every direction. Top of my list now and its remoteness from the Avebury circus means that, for the present at least, there are no candles and other new age clutter to spoil it. Go there, but please leave it as you find it. It already has all the magic that it needs.
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 Stoney Littleton submitted by handswithenergy
Taken 20 Dec 2009. Additional photos available at: http://www.handswithenergy.co.uk/events/yule2009
 Stoney Littleton submitted by ddraigdu
A view inside Stoney Littleton.
 Stoney Littleton submitted by ddraigdu
Stoney Littleton in March 2008. Don't know about the weird cross and sheep's skull though. Apart from that it is a beautiful example of a longbarrow.
 Stoney Littleton submitted by AngieLake
Stoney Littleton and poppies on Friday 13th July 07 - unluckily it was raining! If the entrance is at the SE end, this must be the SW side of the monument.
 Stoney Littleton submitted by AngieLake
The English Heritage notice board at Stoney Littleton.
 Stoney Littleton submitted by AngieLake
Two pics giving impression of height of entrance. Young family came along just as I was leaving. Children wouldn't have to stoop to shelter from rain, but adults did!
In foreground are tops of very high crop between chamber and path, which screened the monument from my view... hence initially passing it by several hundred yards!
 Stoney Littleton submitted by AngieLake
The view down the passage from entrance, showing ammonite on bottom left 'door jamb'.
 Stoney Littleton submitted by AngieLake
Don't know if anyone will be able to read this (to the right of entrance chamber), but thought it worth posting, just for the record
 Stoney Littleton submitted by JimChampion
Fossil in a stone, in the first side-chamber on the right. Many of the stones making up the chambers and passageway contain this type of fossil, I forget what its called.
 Stoney Littleton submitted by JimChampion
An (Easter?) egg left on a stone shelf in the end chamber within the barrow. This will smell nice in a few weeks.
Category *A*
 Stoney Littleton submitted by JimChampion
Inside the barrow - with the passage back to the entrance on the right and one of the side-chambers to the left.
 Stoney Littleton submitted by JimChampion
The famous ammonite cast, on the left-hand lintel of the entrance. Seen on the Portal meet 15 April 2007.
 Stoney Littleton submitted by hamish
Portal meet.April 15th 2007
Initiates in the depths.
 Stoney Littleton submitted by hamish
Portal meet.April 15th 2007
I wonder where Jim is.
 Stoney Littleton submitted by hamish
Portal meet.April 15th 2007
Martyn and MickM examining the fossils on the Portal entrance.
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Re: Stoney Littleton (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, 02 October 2001 | I visited Stony Littleton Longbarrow with my wife and 2 young daughters 6 years ago, and I have to say it is one of the most evocative megalithic sites I have ever had the privilege to see. In perfect isolation without too much trauma to reach, and perfectly positioned for a thoughtful ambience. I worry that the opening of the chambers will lead to further damage, and I wonder if it is wise that this should happen. The chambers here are smaller and more fragile than the likes of West Kennet and Bryn Celli Ddu, and I suspect that many of its visitors will not appreciate the care that needs to be taken to keep the monument safe. The recent events at Silbury show what can happen to a site if human interference is allowed free rein.
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Re: Stoney Littleton (Score: 1)
by Derek (Stoneshapedlikeaseal@westkennetavenue.com) on Wednesday, 04 September 2002
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Mark is right and the cairn/walling around this barrow is <i>especially</i> vulnerable. If it's any reassurance, having visited SL in August 2002, the site appears to be being respected. It's a lovely spot and I would have wanted to remain longer but kids aged 1 and 5 don't have the patience for it sadly. If any of our photos are half-decent I'll try and post some but don't hold your breath as this website is so mammoth it intimidates me! (No disrespect intended, it's marvellous.) |
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by traveller on Saturday, 08 November 2003
(User Info | Send a Message) | | We have just visited this wonderful site and totally agree with what has been said by others about it. The visit was made even more special by the fact that we were lucky enough to be the only ones there today, just us enjoying the atmosphere, oh, and a few sheep nearby. | [ Reply to This ]
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