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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Trainford Brow Long Barrow Alternative Name: Lowther Long BarrowCountry: England County: Cumbria Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Penrith Nearest Village: Lowther
Map Ref: NY5369724313
Latitude: 54.611840N Longitude: 2.718437W
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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Listed on the Historic England web site as Monument List Entry 1012825, this is apparently the only long barrow in this part of Cumbria.
Situated immediately to the west of the A6, just south of Clifton and north of Hackthorpe, the barrow runs east-west along the northern side of the side-road leading to Newtown and Lowther Park. It is difficult to see that this is actually an ancient monument; hidden within a narrow strip of what appears to be unmanaged woodland, the ground rises sharply from the flat landscape around it.
Historic England give the measurements as 104 m long by 24 metres wide, varying between 3.5 metres and 1.5 metres in height.
The Ancient Monuments site (which gives the wrong grid reference for this monument) says it was first noted in 1933, when it was first identified as a long cairn. However, a 1984 report dismisses this as a spoil mound, which, having visited the site seems unlikely and is contradicted by the Historic England entry (see above).
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