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Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Thursday, 25 August 2011 Page Views: 5903

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kingscote Standing Stones
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Nailsworth Nearest Village: Kingscote
Map Ref: ST81189467
Latitude: 51.650504N Longitude: 2.273419W
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2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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2	A long walk
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4clydesdale7 visited on 24th Aug 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Difficult to find but the reward is twofold - an isolated standing stone and some sloes

**Kingscote Standing Stones** submitted by 4clydesdale7 : Now can you see it? (Vote or comment on this photo)

There are times when I wish D.P.Sullivan had been a little more diligent in his research and had done a bit more 'legwork', and this is one of them. The Stones are entry No.34 in his book 'Old Stones of the Cotswolds and the Forest of Dean' which was published in 1999, yet as early as 1972 it had been confirmed that of the 4 standing stones 3 had 'gone missing' and the only stone that could still be found was that which was built partly into the N side of a boundary wall.

The same adheres today but it is much more difficult to find because it is being carefully cosseted by a very large bush of juicy sloes.

The wall is alongside (for most of the time) a public footpath between Bagpath and Newington Bagpath just N of Scrubbetts Farm. After the path veers NE the wall continues SE for about 200m and then itself turns NE but then it peters out and the field boundary becomes an hedge.

Just 3m before the end of the wall (on the N side) the sole remaining stone can be seen (below the sloe bush) jutting out. At this point the wall seems to have run along the top of a slightly higher piece of ground - what is more is that it is aligned NE/SW - so it just could be part of an old barrow.

oh! and by the way I shall be returning for the Sloes!

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