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Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Thursday, 16 July 2015  Page Views: 9577

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Jug's Grave Alternative Name: Jug's Barrow
Country: England County: Wiltshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Bradford-on-Avon  Nearest Village: Monkton Farleigh
Map Ref: ST79696305
Latitude: 51.366146N  Longitude: 2.293123W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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4clydesdale7 visited on 15th Jul 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Deep in dark woodland amidst several quarry workings

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Wiltshire Heritage Museum submitted by dodomad : An early Bronze Age sun-disc from Monkton Farleigh in Wiltshire has gone on display for the first time at Wiltshire Museum. It is one of only six finds of sun-discs discovered and one of the earliest metal objects found in Britain. It was made in about 2,400 BC, soon after the sarsen stones were put up at Stonehenge, and is thought to represent the sun. Courtesy Wiltshire Museum. Photo by Jo... (Vote or comment on this photo)
This former Bronze Age Oval Bowl Barrow was rediscovered in 1946/7 by the renowned local dowser Guy Underwood he found on site two skeletons buried in a cist with other probable secondary burials and more importantly a Bell Beaker (now reconstructed) and some flint arrowheads (to be seen today in Bradford on Avon Museum)

Guy Underwood also discovered the Conkwell Stone Circle upon which there is now very great doubt.

The barrow is not easy to find because it is seriously overgrown, lies deep in a very dark and wet wood (Inwood) and has been very badly mutilated - furthermore it is situated within an old stone quarry - with loads of debris and smaller cairns at hand - (ST79686308)

Mentioned in:- (a) pastscape; Wiltshire: Monkton Farleigh: 204149 (b) Victoria County History; Wiltshire; Vol 1; p184 - Grinsell and (c) Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 1947/8 Vol 51 p447 and Vol 52 p270 - Underwood

Pastscape says: An oval-shaped bowl barrow, known as Jug's Grave. It is 27 by 21 paces and 4 feet high. There are slight indications of a ditch on the south and west. Excavations by G. Underwood, 1946/7, revealed a primary interment of two skeletons in a stone cist accompanied by four EBA flint arrowheads, probable Beaker sherds, a gold 'sun disc' ornament and a fragment of bone ring. Four secondary inhumation-burials were found in the north part of the mound and other finds included a few flint flakes and scrapers and part of an hour-glass perforated stone mace. Three banks of the field system (ST 86 SW 1) impinge on the mound. Source: Pastscape

Note: An early Bronze Age sun-disc discovered in this barrow in Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire has gone on display for the first time at Wiltshire Museum.
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Jug's Grave
Jug's Grave submitted by Malarchist : Jugs Grave Cairn - much overgrown but clearly a substantial monument when first built. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Jug's Grave submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The Barrow/Cairn on approach from the west (Vote or comment on this photo)

Jug's Grave
Jug's Grave submitted by 4clydesdale7 : Some larger much disturbed stones (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Jug's Grave submitted by 4clydesdale7 : Close up detail some of the moss covered stones (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Gold sun disc from the time of Stonehenge on display for the first time by Malarchist on Friday, 03 May 2019
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There seems to be some confusion online over the precise location of Jugs Grave, but its whereabouts are well known locally. I have provided a photo of the site. It's actually quite easy to find, as a well used path runs directly past it. The woods are privately owned, and whilst there are signs up advising you to keep out, access is easily achieved and locals use the woods for walking all the time. I've never run into trouble up there. The woods are crisscrossed with old walls, some of which appear to have once been substantial. I have been told that these are the remnants of ancient field systems. These can be seen in the Lidar survey. There are also many other substantial cairns or heaped up stones throughout, the remants of quarrying or field clearance, which can cause confusion.
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Re: Jug's Grave by Anonymous on Saturday, 30 December 2017
I visited it twice with 2 mates & found it hard to find due to the undergrowth.
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Gold sun disc from the time of Stonehenge on display for the first time by Andy B on Thursday, 16 July 2015
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An early Bronze Age sun-disc from Monkton Farleigh in Wiltshire has gone on display for the first time at Wiltshire Museum. It is one of only six finds of sun-discs discovered and one of the earliest metal objects found in Britain. It was made in about 2,400 BC, soon after the sarsen stones were put up at Stonehenge, and is thought to represent the sun.

The sun-disc was found in Jug's Grave burial mound at Monkton Farleigh, just over 20 miles from Stonehenge. It was found in 1947 in excavations by Guy Underwood along with a pottery beaker, flint arrowheads and fragments of the skeleton of an adult male. It was kept safe by the landowner since its discovery and has only now been given to the Museum. It has now been cleaned by the Wiltshire Council Conservation Service and has been placed on display in time for this year’s mid-summer solstice.

The sun-disk is a thin embossed sheet of gold with a cross at the centre, surrounded by a circle. Between the lines of both the cross and the circle are fine dots which glint in sunlight. The disc is pierced by two holes that may have been used to sew the disc to a piece of clothing or a head-dress, and may have been used in pairs. Until recently it has been thought that early Bronze Age gold may have come from Ireland, but a new scientific technique developed at Southampton University is hinting that the gold may have come from Cornwall.

Museum Director David Dawson said “We have the best Bronze Age collections in Britain and we are delighted to be able to display this incredibly rare sun-disk through the generosity of the donors. It was kept safe since its discovery by Dr Denis Whitehead and the first time that it had been seen by archaeologists was when he brought it to show me at the launch of our new Prehistory Galleries in 2013. It has now been presented to the Museum in remembrance of Denis S Whitehead of Inwoods, Farleigh Wick.”

The latest research on Bronze Age gold includes a conference paper by Alison Sheridan and Stuart Needham –
http://repository.nms.ac.uk/1292/
and a major research report by John Hunter and Ann Woodward, published by Oxbow books –
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/ritual-in-early-bronze-age-grave-goods.html

Southampton University research –
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2015/05/irish-gold-trade.page

Wiltshire Museum is an independent charity, with some revenue funding from Wiltshire Council and Devizes Town Council. The Museum is run by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (WANHS), a registered charity founded in 1853.

Source: Wiltshire Museum
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