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<< Our Photo Pages >> Lyneham Long Barrow - Long Barrow in England in Oxfordshire

Submitted by bec-zog on Thursday, 29 December 2022  Page Views: 14143

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lyneham Long Barrow
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.4 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Oxfordshire Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Chipping Norton  Nearest Village: Ascott-under-Wychwood
Map Ref: SP29752107  Landranger Map Number: OL45
Latitude: 51.887399N  Longitude: 1.569148W
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
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Brian_Eyes visited on 1st Nov 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Was here at sunset which was very beautiful, of course a wonderful view for the ancestors across the Cotswolds to the west. The barrow is kind of in the corner of a field with one big stone at its eastern end.

h_fenton hamish NickyD have visited here

Lyneham Long Barrow
Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by h_fenton : Standing stone at the northern end of Lyneham long barrow, the rest of the barrow itself is over my left shoulder. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This impressive old prehistoric stone, erroneously described by James [1992] as only four feet tall, stands at the northern end of this collapsed chambered tomb in Oxfordshire. When Grinsell [1936] described his visit here there was another "large upright stone" in the centre of the great mound. The field in which the stone stands now lies fallow and the long barrow bears the scars of 19th century excavations. The stone may have been a blocking stone, or as James Dyer [1970] proposes, part of a southern false entrance. There is a smaller one-and-a-half foot tall stone six feet to the south-east of the six-foot monolith. Well worth visiting.

Just a few hundred yards from here is some fascinating shamanic lore. Turner [1993] describes how at the old quarry on the other side of the road from the long barrow where Pudlicote Lane begins, "Local legend claims that many years ago an old lady known as 'Gran' lived in a cave in the quarry, where she kept a hoard of old gold sovereigns. No one knows what became of the old lady, but in more recent times there have been several sightings of a ghostly figure in the vicinity of the old quarry."

J. A. Brooks [1992] reports that at the crossroads just above this standing stone, where the prehistoric camp is, "[H]er ghost in the form of a 'white lady', is supposed to haunt the... junction here.

Text from "The Old Stones of Rollright and District" by Paul Bennett and Tom Wilson, used with thanks.

For more information also see The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) entry for Lyneham Barrow, Ascot-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, Pastscape Monument No. 332607, and for scheduling information refer to Historic England List ID 1015413.
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Lyneham Long Barrow
Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by h_fenton : I've known about this stone for a few years, I'm not uncertain whether this is like an ancient stone or not. This is close to Lyneham Long Barrow which is about 130 metres to the east. Size (as it is currently lying): 1.96 metres long 0.85 metres wide 0.67 metres high Grid Reference: SP 29625 21101 (accurate to within 5metres) The stone is on a wide field boundary ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lyneham Long Barrow
Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by Bladup : Lyneham Long Barrow. The standing stone at the end of the long barrow. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by postman : The barrow disappears under the mass of growth to the left. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lyneham Long Barrow
Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by postman : From the edge of the barrow, couldn't get any nearer the actual barrow as it was well overgrown. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by postman : Dewy grass, wet knees

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Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by h_fenton : Lyneham Long Barrow - The snow now helps to show the profile of this barrow because in some areas you can see the top of the barrow beneath the bushes. 7 February 2009

Lyneham Long Barrow
Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by h_fenton : Plan and sections of Lyneham Long Barrow (from excavations in 1894). Published with an account of the excation in: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Second Series Volume 15 (1895). Re-labelling done 2008 because the original plan is far from clear.

Lyneham Long Barrow
Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by h_fenton : Lyneham Long Barrow, A small upright stone built into the collapsed wall that crosses the northern end of the long barrow (at right angle to the longitudinal axis of the barrow). This stone appears to be quite solidly set in the ground. The dashed lines indicate the edges of the wall. The scales are 1metre long and are in the same position in both photographs. visited: 26 January 200...

Lyneham Long Barrow
Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by h_fenton : A fragment of fired clay impressed with pieces of grass, this is very well fired. Normally I might think of this as fired daub from the wall of a house which has been burnt et cetera. However in my experience of finding daub whether through field walking or excavation is that the grasses and other organic materials run all the way through clay, whereas on this piece from Lyneham long barrow the gr...

Lyneham Long Barrow
Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by h_fenton : Lyneham long barrow from the south and also a view beneath the bushes. There are now a small number of sheep grazing the barrow and the fields that it is in so there is less low level plants than you might usually expect during the summer months and you can crawl around beneath the hawthorn bushes on top of the barrow if you are agile enough!. July 2007.

Lyneham Long Barrow
Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by hamish : I must go here again, Prof Darvill says there is evidence of more stones projecting from the Barrow and at the other end. Have to take my loppers it's a bit overgrown. (1 comment)

Lyneham Long Barrow
Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by hamish : I tried to take a picture on the mound but it is so overgroiwn I gave up. Grinsell described the place in 1936 he said "there was another large uprigh stone" in the certre of the mound. No sign now.

Lyneham Long Barrow
Lyneham Long Barrow submitted by bec-zog : SP 297211 Remains of burial chamber.

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Re: Lyneham Long Barrow by Zooks777 on Friday, 13 August 2021
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Decent example on the Environment Agency lidar (grey icon next to that for CamRA)
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Lyneham Long Barrow Street View by Andy B on Monday, 14 February 2011
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Re: Lyneham Long Barrow by h_fenton on Saturday, 02 February 2008
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I had a look at the holes in the top of the barrow recently (26 january 2008) mostly it looks like the smallish stones that fill them have just been tossed back into the holes at random possibly after they were dug or during later excavations. In one hole judging from how the stones are lying it looks like they had been built into a low wall (roughly coursed) around the hole and at some later date they were pushed over into the hole - since you can still see some coursing in the fallen stones. It may have been in this hole that Grinsell saw the other large stone back in the 1930's.
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Re: Lyneham Long Barrow by h_fenton on Sunday, 29 July 2007
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c.late 2005 new fencing (sheep fencing topped with barbed wire) was erected in the fields around this site making access a little more difficult, one of the new fences divides the standing stone at the northern end of the barrow from the rest of the barrow, the only gateway through this fence is right down the bottom of the field.
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