<< Our Photo Pages >> Symonds Hall Farm - Long Barrow in England in Gloucestershire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Symonds Hall Farm Alternative Name: Wotton under Edge IICountry: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Wotton-under-Edge Nearest Village: Kingscote
Map Ref: ST79719599 Landranger Map Number: 162
Latitude: 51.662321N Longitude: 2.294742W
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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4clydesdale7 visited on 22nd May 2011 - their rating: Amb: 3 Access: 2 Went all round it trying to get nearer - followed by anxious local farmer who warmed to my task if only begrudgingly - maybe he was having an off day
TheCaptain have visited here
The fields were empty at the time I was there, so I nipped in for a look. Obviously once a very large barrow, it is now in two parts, a southwestern round bit, and a northeastern elongated bit, all very disturbed and with large dips and excavations in the top.
The mound is obviously constructed from stones, and there are remains of some fairly large stone slabs still to be seen in places. It obviously was once fenced off, as there are remains of fence posts surrounding the remains.
This site now consists of two mounds, one to the north-east and one to the south-west with ploughed land in between. However, a 17th Century reference describes a single 'hill or tumpe'.
References
Megalithic Enquiries in the West of Britain, T.G.E.Powell et Al (Liverpool 1969)
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