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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Holywell Racecourse Alternative Name: Bwrdd y Rhyfel 2Country: Wales County: Flintshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Holywell Nearest Village: Babell
Map Ref: SJ15177526 Landranger Map Number: 116
Latitude: 53.267522N Longitude: 3.273365W
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | no data |
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Status: Possible
NMR No. PRN 102384
Extent: 70mx15m
The following information from Coflein site. "Formerly regarded as two lengths of Offa's Dyke (Nprn306866), abutting an earlier circle (Fox 1956, 22-27), this monument complex comprises a barrow, c.24m in diameter and 1.1m high, set eccentrically within an oval enclosure, c.82m by 72m, defined by a bank with an external ditch, which has two lengths of bank, ditched on either side, springing from it, that on the NW extending for c.184m, that on the SSE for c.68m.
The barrow was excavated in 1925, revealing an inhumation in a central pit and three secondary cremations, one in-urned.
A further, N-S, bank, with possible side ditches, cut by the circle, has been observed.
See Nprn306868.
(sources: Os495card SJ17NE3; Gibson in Barclay and Harding 1999)
See Nprn's 306868 & 300495 for linear dykes to the N and S.
J.Wiles 29.10.02"
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