<< Our Photo Pages >> Coberley - Chambered Tomb in England in Gloucestershire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Coberley Alternative Name: Coberley IICountry: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Cheltenham Nearest Village: Coberley
Map Ref: SO95521564 Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.839347N Longitude: 2.066428W
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 |
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TheCaptain visited on 4th Aug 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Cotswold Way walk around Leckhampton Hill from Seven Springs, south to Ullenwood, turning east past Cuckoopen Farm and then down past the substantial remains of a longbarrow beside a lovely old green trackway partway down a ridge on the downslope from the top of the Cotswold Hills above the small village of Coberley.
Dabberdave visited on 11th Oct 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 A very pleasant visit in late afternoon sunshine. Lovely location. Well worth a visit despite the huge trench cutting it in two
4clydesdale7 visited on 23rd Jun 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Unusual to see a barrow cut through by excavations - some wear to barrow at NW corner showing courses of stone inside head of barrow
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 4
It is divided in two parts a little to the E of the middle by a deep trench made for an excavation c. 1880 when nothing was found. The size of the barrow suggests it was a Cotswold-Severn type and thus may have had a burial chamber.
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