<< Our Photo Pages >> Tar Barrow - Round Barrow(s) in England in Gloucestershire
Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Sunday, 15 January 2012 Page Views: 5817
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tar Barrow Alternative Name: Tor Barrow, Thorebarewe, Castrum Torre, Starbury Mount, Cirencester 2Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.3 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gloucestershire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Cirencester Nearest Village: Bowling Green
Map Ref: SP03110252
Latitude: 51.721395N Longitude: 1.956379W
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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alchemille visited on 6th Jun 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
4clydesdale7 visited on 14th Jan 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Local land owner somewhat protective but is he looking after the barrow(s)?
alchemille have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 4
A Roman possible Bronze Age Round Barrow just to the NE of Cirencester between the Roman Roads Ermin Street Fosse Way and Akeman Street and the Ancient Track the White Way planted with mature Elm Beech Ash and Sycamore which has a chequered history - first mentioned in AD 1200 as Thorebarewe then by William of Worcester in 1460 as Castrum Torre - it was also mentioned in Rudder's History of Gloucestershire around the same time it was reported in Daniel Defoe's 'A Tour through Great Britain' 1742 -
The Barrow, possibly one of a group of three, is quite impressive being 25m diameter and 2.5m high - strangely it was missed by the redoubtable George Witts when preparing his Archaeological Handbook of Gloucestershire 1883 but deserved two honourable 'mentions' by BGAS 1960 Vol 79. p108 by O'Neil and Grinsell and 1989 Vol 107. p72 by Darvill and Grinsell -
There is a nice piece of folklore about it dating back to an informal/unofficial excavation in 1685 - two men upon digging found several rooms with furniture which crumbled to dust when they touched it - they also found some urns containing ashes and another full of coins - when they tried to remove the same they were attacked by a man wearing armour who had risen from his tomb and set about them with a truncheon -
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