<< Our Photo Pages >> Colnpen - Chambered Tomb in England in Gloucestershire
Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Tuesday, 24 September 2002 Page Views: 5849
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Colnpen Alternative Name: Con St Dennis ICountry: England
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County: Gloucestershire Type: Chambered Tomb
Map Ref: SP068084
Latitude: 51.774231N Longitude: 1.902848W
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 |
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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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4clydesdale7 visited on 31st Jan 2012 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Impressive even on a cold cold day
This is a well-preserved long mound. Traces of the burial chamber can be found to the eastern end.
Reputedly the largest Bronze Age Long Barrow/Chambered Tomb in Gloucestershire this giant is 300ft (85m) long 70ft (21m) wide and 11ft (3.5m) high orientated E/W and reportedly unexcavated (though my photo of the eastern end might suggest otherwise). Certainly it seems both ends have been disturbed - it has five Round Barrows to the Northeast as neighbours forming a Barrow Cemetery.
It features little in the County History being ignored by G Witts in 1883 and later in the BGAS 1989 review by Darvill and Grinsell (but both allude to it elsewhere).
It has been mentioned however by:-
(a) OGS Crawford in his Long Barrows of the Cotswolds 1925 No 20
(b) O'Neil and Grinsell in BGAS 1960 Vol 79 p.76
(c) Daniel/Corcoran/Darvill/Grinsell in the County Gazetteer GLO69
(d) On the pastscape website No 327151 Gloucestershire/Cotswolds/Coln St Dennis
The Barrow is in a superb setting about 1mile SE of the Fosse Way but not easy to get to being a circuitous hike from a bridleway.
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