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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Obadiah's Barrow Alternative Name: Obadiah's GraveCountry: England County: Isles of Scilly Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Village: Island of Gugh
Map Ref: SV88800850 Landranger Map Number: 203
Latitude: 49.895594N Longitude: 6.334838W
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 |
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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 |
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Inside the chamber it is quite damp and there is an eerie sensation I have not experienced in any of the other graves visited.
When the chamber was excavated in 1901 it was found to contain the remains of a contracted male skeleton, and the remains of a dozen cremation urns.
Over eighty entrance graves have been recorded on the isles of Scilly. They vary a great deal in state of preservation.
Most date to the late Neolithic period (+2500 BC) and continued in construction and use until as late as 700 BC. They are constructed of stone and earth and are circular in shape. Usually surrounded by a stone kerb, with a rectangular stone chamber constructed of stone and course walling and covered by large capstones. The entrances themselves vary in the direction they face, although the majority face Easterly to catch the rays of the rising sun.
They vary a great deal in size perhaps reflecting the social standing of those buried there, and/or the different functions of the monuments themselves.
From the human remains found in many of the chambers burial was a primary function for these sites. Cremation was the usual form with the bones deposited loose or in urns, occasionally accompanied by grave goods. In three chambers burials span a period of nearly 700 years.
It is also likely that they were used as territorial markers, and places of ritual offering to ensure the fertility of the land, possibly linked to early field boundaries associated with many of the sites.
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