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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ablington Long Barrow Alternative Name: Bibury V
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Chambered Tomb

Map Ref: SP10910925 Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.781809N Longitude: 1.843254W
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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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-1	Completely destroyed

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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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4clydesdale7 visited on 14th Jul 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4 Very heavily overgrown like its neighbour Lamborough Banks

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Chambered Tomb in Gloucestershire. It was opened in the year 1854. Direction, north and south; its length is about 270 feet, and greatest width 100 feet; its height at the northern end being twelve feet. It is composed of the common oolitic stone of the country. Unlike other barrows in the county, it is surrounded by a double wall of masonry, each having a face outwards and filled with rubble.

Towards the north, these walls make a double curve inwards, and in the centre of this curve, between the two walls, stands a large stone, six feet high and five feet wide. An interment was found near the north end of the tumulus in a grave made of rough stones; a few worked flints were also found, but the barrow has never been thoroughly examined. Adjoining the barrow are the remains of a round hut built underground, formed of dry walling similar in character to that found in the tumulus.

Text from The Archaeological Handbook of the County of Gloucester by George Witts, 1882 (approx)

In Corcoran's study (1969) of Cotswold's chambered tombs he assigns it to being a chambered cairn; but Frances Lynch (1969) told that no consensus agreement has been made, as no burial was found here, saying W.G. Grimes "has recently claimed that one at Ablington (GLO 26) is defintiely Neolithic, although there were no finds in support."

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SP1009 : Road From Ablington Passing Through Small Wood by Roy Hughes — by Roy Hughes
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SP1109 : Former RAF Bibury near Garnes Barn by Vieve Forward — by Vieve Forward
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SP1109 : A modern 'blister' barn on the site of former RAF Bibury by Roger Davies — by Roger Davies
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SP1109 : A circular walk around Bibury and Ablington [20] by Michael Dibb — by Michael Dibb
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SP1009 : WW2 ancillary building, former RAF Bibury by Vieve Forward — by Vieve Forward
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