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Photo Pages: Coate - Stone Circle in England in Wiltshire
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Submitted by JJ on Friday, 20 March 2009 Page Views: 9186
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 Site Name: Coate Country: England County: Wiltshire Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Swindon
Map Ref: SU181824 Landranger Map Number: 173
Latitude: 51.540213N Longitude: 1.740412W
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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   Coate submitted by ShropshireTraveller
The only remains of the Coate stone circle visible is an arc of 5 flat (fallen?) stones in an arc, 2 outlying stones to the south and south east respectively, and a further stone to the west of the road.
Although the circle itself is, of course, protected by being scheduled, the whole surrounding area is under threat from a huge campus development, which would devastate the rural nature of the site.
More on Coate stone circle here, and initial details of the proposed development here.
Note: Coate "could be the new Avebury" say campaigners, see latest comment.
 Coate submitted by HOLYWELL
The fallen sarsens of this almost lost site can just about be traced.
 Coate submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Coate Circle, wedged between Swindon and the M4 Motorway, visited with permission of the landowner 25/11/07. 5 Stones remain in an arc; 1 additional stone is to the SE towards a tree, and a further stone to the S. There is another stone to the W in a field in front of a barn, visible from the main circle.
The largest stone as apparent from remains above ground on the south side of the arc. Foot f
 Coate submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Coate Circle, wedged between Swindon and the M4 Motorway, visited with permission of the landowner 25/11/07. 5 Stones remain in an arc; 1 additional stone is to the SE towards a tree, and a further stone to the S. There is another stone to the W in a field in front of a barn, visible from the main circle.
Using digital zoom to get a closer look at the stone across the road next to trough in fron
 Coate submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Coate Circle, wedged between Swindon and the M4 Motorway, visited with permission of the landowner 25/11/07. 5 Stones remain in an arc; 1 additional stone is to the SE towards a tree, and a further stone to the S. There is another stone to the W in a field in front of a barn, visible from the main circle.
Looking from the south outlying stone to the NW.
 Coate submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Coate Circle, wedged between Swindon and the M4 Motorway, visited with permission of the landowner 25/11/07. 5 Stones remain in an arc; 1 additional stone is to the SE towards a tree, and a further stone to the S. There is another stone to the W in a field in front of a barn, visible from the main circle.
Looking from the SE outlying stone to the entire remains of the arc.
 Coate submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Coate Circle, wedged between Swindon and the M4 Motorway, visited with permission of the landowner 25/11/07. 5 Stones remain in an arc; 1 additional stone is to the SE towards a tree, and a further stone to the S. There is another stone to the W in a field in front of a barn, visible from the main circle.
Close up of 4 of the stones in the arc, outlying stone just to left of tree.
 Coate submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Coate Circle, wedged between Swindon and the M4 Motorway, visited with permission of the landowner 25/11/07. 5 Stones remain in an arc; 1 additional stone is to the SE towards a tree, and a further stone to the S. There is another stone to the W in a field in front of a barn, visible from the main circle.
The five stones of the arc are visible in this picture, as is the outlying stone just to the
 Coate submitted by hamish
This is a better picture than my attempt a couple of years ago.You can see the arc of the circle,the missing part disappeared when the road was built.
 Coate submitted by hamish
SU181824.
Not an easy site to photograph but I think I got all 4 stones into the pictures. Rather nice ponies come to greet you.
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Family Protest March 5 June 2004 (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Tuesday, 15 June 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | 1000 people marched, from starting points including Coate Water, to the civic offices to protest at the proposed developments at Coate, the Front Garden and on the Swindon Forest.
Three reports from the Swindon Evening Advertiser and a report with photographs on Indymedia
All at http://www.savecoate.org.uk/
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Coate Circle nr Swindon (Score: 1)
by ShropshireTraveller on Sunday, 25 November 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Took a look here with landowner's permission this morning; there are five stones remaining in an arc; two stones out from the circle to the SE, and one to the S - perhaps outliers? Also another stone across the road next to a trough. The land is owned by the large property opposite, though the paddock is indeed home to two curious horses who were thankfully largely absent for most of my visit. | [ Reply to This ]
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Save Coate Blog (Score: 1)
by ShropshireTraveller on Sunday, 25 November 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | "The Save Coate coalition was set up to protect the environmental, literary and historic qualities of the countryside between Coate Water and the North Wessex Downs near Swindon. The immediate threat is a plan to build 1,800 houses, offices and a university campus for 10,000 students next to Swindonian's "favourite place". However, the University of Bath pulled out of the deal in March 2007. Over 33,000 people have objected to the proposal. This blog records news from July 2005." See the blog HERE. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Coate stone circle (Score: 1)
by TheCaptain on Saturday, 15 March 2008
(User Info | Send a Message) | From HOLYWELL.
"This Bronze age site lies beside the road just after the Coate water roundabout. It is made of nine fallen sarsens which form an arc covering about a third of the original circle. This original circle would have been 130 feet in diameter". | [ Reply to This ]
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Coate "could be the new Avebury" say campaigners (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Friday, 20 March 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | A CONTROVERSIAL area of land in Swindon that is earmarked for a housing development could instead become Swindon’s own “mini-Avebury”, according to campaigners.
The claim comes after ancient stones, which could be part of Swindon’s Neolithic history, were unearthed at Coate.
The two sarsen stones were uncovered by the Highways Agency last week opposite Day House Farm, near the protected Coate Stone Circle.
The find has excited speculation that more historic stones may still lie undiscovered in the area.
Campaigners against a planning application by the Swindon Gateway Partnership to build 1,800 homes and a university campus on land near Coate Water say the development could rob the town of huge potential historic and tourist value.
Jean Saunders, from the Jefferies Land Conservation Trust, said: “There is a real chance here to create almost a mini-Avebury.
“This particular area is steeped in pre-history. We know of a Bronze Age settlement just south of Coate Water, two round barrows opposite Richard Jefferies’ old house at Coate, two stone circles on Day House Farm and lines of stones linking these together with others.
“It would be criminal to surround these ancient relics of the past with modern buildings. Who knows how many more of these old stones lie undiscovered? Can Swindon afford to lose more of its history?
More in the Swindon Advertiser
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/4218302.Coate_could_be_the_new_Avebury/ | [ Reply to This ]
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