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<< Our Photo Pages >> Five Barrows (Northumberland) - Barrow Cemetery in England in Northumberland

Submitted by vicky on Wednesday, 03 March 2004  Page Views: 7043

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Five Barrows (Northumberland)
Country: England County: Northumberland Type: Barrow Cemetery
 Nearest Village: Holystone
Map Ref: NT953020  Landranger Map Number: 81
Latitude: 55.312061N  Longitude: 2.075594W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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
3

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w650marion visited on 26th Jan 2023 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Balancing on logs dropped over the flooded parts of the footpath by the bridge, then tussock hopping over the boggy areas, but nicer walking over the ridge top to look for the barrows.

Five Barrows (Northumberland)
Five Barrows (Northumberland) submitted by w650marion : The largest cairn, on the ridge top, about 19 meters diameter. It has a central dip where it was excavated. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery of nine cairns in Northumberland

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Re: Five Barrows (Northumberland) by w650marion on Sunday, 29 January 2023
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There are at least 20 cairns of different sizes, ranging from 3m to 19m in diameter. Five of the mounds are more prominent than the others. The largest cairn is on the top of the ridge and is visible from the farm road on the other side of the river.
Two of the larger ones were partially excavated in the 19th century by Canon Greenwell when several cremated bodies and a stone coffin were recovered in addition to several decorated and plain Bronze Age pots, flint pieces and fragments of burnt bone pins. It is evident from the excavation accounts that each round cairn covered several bodies including both adults and children.

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