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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne Alternative Name: Duntisbourne Abbots I
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Chambered Tomb
 Nearest Village: Duntisbourne
Map Ref: SO965066  Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.758075N  Longitude: 2.05211W
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
 3 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.
 no data 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 2nd Jun 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Site still much like photos by hamish - take the opportunity to see College Plantation 1&2 whilst you are there - Jack Barrow also very close by but virtually nothing left of it

Rcka78 oldman TheCaptain hamish have visited here

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by baz : The Hoar Stone long barrow, with an exposed capstone in the foreground and the Hoar Stone behind. GPS: SO 96483 06604. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by TheCaptain : "Seven years ago photographer David Quentin began capturing surreal, alien-like scenes of rocks falling from the sky at locations across the UK. It all started when the London-based photographer threw a stone into the air and took a picture of it to see how it looked..." See more at this article Photo Credit: David Quentin (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by postman : The Hoar stone, no the other one, no not that one......yes, that one. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by postman : April 2006 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by hamish : This is the approach to the site. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by hamish : This is from the east side of the site. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by Rcka78 : Hoar Stone on Christmas Day, mid morning 2024

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking east at the barrow from the roadside with a helpful signpost on the left.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking east at the western end of the barrow on the way back.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Top of the barrow looking east.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Southern side looking NW. Capstone just visible on the right.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking SE at the barrow's stony guardian.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking south.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Eastern end of the barrow looking SE, the Hoare Stone has woken up. This series of photos all came out slightly blurred, not sure why as the sun was behind me, another mystery of the barrow!

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Stones at the eastern end of the barrow.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking SW at the Hoare Stone, it obviously didn't like being photographed in portrait format : )

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : There are some interesting features on this stone when the sun is shining on it.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Eastern end of the barrow looking east.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Hoare Stone looking east.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking NW over the capstone.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Top of the barrow looking east over the capstone with the Hoare Stone behind it.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Capstone over the chamber.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Southern side looking east. The Hoare Stone is at the end with the capstone visible to the left of it.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking SE.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking north at the barrow, the capstone covering the chamber is visible in the centre with the Hoare Stone on the right.

Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking SE from the road at the barrow (centre of photo).

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Re: Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne by HarryTwenty on Saturday, 13 January 2024
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Description from the twentytrees website:

Hoar Stone Tumulus
"This lies in the parish of Duntisbourn Abbots, above four and a half miles from Cirencester. It was 120 feet long and 90 feet wide, composed of loose quarry stones. The largest stone at the east end has been long known by the name of the "Hoar Stone;" it is of the calcareous kind, twelve feet high, thirteen feet in circumference, and weighs between five and six tons; it was half above and half under ground. Another stone, about nine feet square and one foot thick, lay flat on the ground; this covered a chamber in which the remains of eight or nine human bodies were discovered. The chamber was divided into two cells about four feet square and six feet deep."

See "Archaeologia," vol. XVI, p362.

Also "Gentleman's Magazine," vol. LXXVI, p971.

(www.twentytrees.co.uk/History/Books/Thing/Long-Barrows.html?beBKOfC5)
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Re: Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne by 4clydesdale7 on Thursday, 02 June 2011
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Just like hamish's photos but the tree has died
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Re: Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne by coldrum on Tuesday, 16 February 2010
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Pastscape entry.

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=117037
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Re: Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne by TheCaptain on Tuesday, 16 January 2007
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Excavations in 1806 were concerned with a lateral chamber on the south side, the capstone of which is visible today on the surface of the ground.
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Re: Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne by Anonymous on Saturday, 22 October 2005
We went there today. It has a fine ruined desolation and a fine autumn Gloucestershire setting. We liked it. The neaerby Collage Plantation is woth visiting too
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