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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pinkwell (Chedworth) - Chambered Cairn in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Tuesday, 02 November 2004  Page Views: 6270

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pinkwell (Chedworth) Alternative Name: Chedworth I
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Chambered Cairn

Map Ref: SP045106  Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.794034N  Longitude: 1.936154W
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.
 3 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 14th Jul 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Easier to trace its outline in a late evening sun - nice setting

Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The view from that dip in the West towards the East (Vote or comment on this photo)
Badly damaged Chambered Cairn in Gloucestershire

Disturbance of the mound in the 19th Century uncovered a chamber at the south-eastern end.

Essentially this Barrow is virtually ploughed out - get close to the ground (particularly in a dip just to the West) and the outline may just be perceived against the trees in a hedge to the East
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Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by HarryTwenty : Eastern side looking west. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by HarryTwenty : Northern end looking south. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by HarryTwenty : This is the top of the barrow. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by HarryTwenty : Northern side looking north. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by HarryTwenty : Northern edge looking west. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by HarryTwenty : Top of the barrow looking south. Can't say this is a good way to treat historic sites.

Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking west. The only good thing about the pile of crap on the barrow is that it outlines the edges a bit better.

Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by HarryTwenty : Eastern side looking south.

Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by HarryTwenty : Top of the barrow, a pile of earth has been dumped on it.

Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by HarryTwenty : Approaching the barrow from the west.

Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking east at the long barrow, can just see the slope against the trees right of centre.

Pinkwell (Chedworth)
Pinkwell (Chedworth) submitted by Celia_Haddon : Now just a mound behind the farm, just next to the footpath that goes past the farm, Pinkwell long barrow is now barely visible. It was excavated by Akerman in 1856. The eastern side had a surround of dry stone walling, and towards the centre stones of a larger size. The southern edge of the barrow had been disturbed twenty years earlier for its stone. Three skeletons had been found then. Akerman ...

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Long Barrows of the Cotswolds, Darvill

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Re: Pinkwell (Chedworth) by HarryTwenty on Saturday, 13 January 2024
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Description from the twentytrees website:

Pinkwell Long Barrow

Gloucestershire, 43 N.E. Parish of Chedworth. 43*.

Latitude 51° 47' 37". Longitude 1° 56' 04". Height above O.D. about 690 feet.


The following is an account of the excavation of this barrow by Akerman (age 49) in 1856 given in Proc. Soc. Ant., iv, 1859, pp. 16 and 17:-

"My attention having been directed to a barrow of this description [i.e., long], situated in a field near the farmstead of Pinkwell, a little to the west of the village of Chedworth, in Gloucestershire, I applied to the Reverend A. Gibson, the trustee for the land on which it stands, and Mr. Townsend, the occupier, for permission to explore it, which was very promptly and kindly granted.

" This tumulus has always been known as ' Long Barrow,' and the field in which it is situated as ' Long Barrow Field,' but this designation was probably given to it at a comparatively recent period, when the Chedworth district of the extensive Cotswold range was first enclosed. I learned that the southern end of the barrow had been disturbed about twenty years since for the purpose of obtaining stone, when three human skeletons were found lying side by side, but unaccompanied by relics of any description. The teeth were remarkably perfect. This rather invited than discouraged further investigation, for although the centre of the mound appeared to have been disturbed on its surface, I was led to believe that this was attributable to the labourers in search of stone, and that it had never been ransacked by the antiquary or the treasure-seeker.

"We commenced excavations on the eastern side of the south end of the mound, which appeared to be intact, and on reaching the interior it became evident that the floor of the barrow had been excavated to a depth of two feet below the natural surface of the soil. The sides were built up with the smaller stones of the district, in the manner of a ' dry wall,' but nearer the centre the stones were of larger size, and all were placed with great apparent care, plainly showing that this end of the barrow had not been disturbed since its first formation.

" After a careful search for some hours, and the removal of a vast number of stones, we were satisfied that there had been no deposit of any kind in this portion of the barrow, and we proceeded to remove the stones at the opposite end, where the skeletons already mentioned had been found. As the work proceeded it became obvious that the stones here were not placed with care ; in fact that they had been thrown to- gether without order or arrangement, and that this barrow had been assailed at some distant period. Nothing but the hope that the mound had been imperfectly explored would have tempted further search, and this at length ended in the finding of the metal tag of a lace and a minute fragment of pottery. By the dark brown glaze upon the latter, it is probably not earlier than the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seven- teenth century, and to this period I would refer the first assault of the barrow at Pinkwell."

(www.twentytrees.co.uk/History/Prehistory/Thing/Cotswolds-Neolithic-Tombs.html?0LwxmM4L)
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Re: Pinkwell (Chedworth) by 4clydesdale7 on Friday, 15 July 2011
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The Excavations reported by TheCaptain may be seen in a low evening sun as a shadow line but essentially this Barrow is virtually ploughed out - get close to the ground (particularly in a dip just to the West) and the outline may just be perceived against the trees in a hedge to the East
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Re: Pinkwell (Chedworth) by TheCaptain on Sunday, 14 January 2007
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Excavations in 1856 revealed that there was possibly a lateral chamber.
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