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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Fargo Disk Barrow Alternative Name: Stonehenge Cursus Barrow Group, Great Cursus BarrowsCountry: England County: Wiltshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Amesbury Nearest Village: Winterbourne Stoke
Map Ref: SU11154275
Latitude: 51.183873N Longitude: 1.841853W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | no data |
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Richard13 visited on 1st Jan 2014 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3
Angie Lake writes: On 19th June 2012, Rangers (presumably working for the National Trust) told me about this site. Jackie and I had been in the plantation, investigating a possible small 'henge' (dowsed by Angie and late friend Alex in May 2010) near the large barrow* in the woods just south of the west end of The Great Cursus - *(not the 'Monarch', btw) - when a young man and woman stopped to chat. (They were probably looking for illegal Solstice campers and thought we were setting up camp! ;-))
In the course of discussion he said he'd seen my name on the Megalithic Portal, and went on to tell us about a newly-cleared site we might like to take a look at.
He explained that we should go back to the north/south footpath through the trees (accessed by the stile just south of the west end of the Cursus), then look to our left and we'd see the clearing.
There was only one possible place this could be, which we accessed by a hardly-noticable track through the undergrowth.
Though it was not obviously recognisable as a disk barrow, while walking around the perimeter of the area we noticed several small red plastic pegs sticking out of the ground, and a small red flag. Presumably these marked certain features (inner or outer ring) of the disk barrow.
While googling for information I came upon a diagram of the barrows in this area on a website with an email link to a 'Chris Collyer':
http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/cursusgroup.htm
It clearly shows the site of the disk barrow and would be very useful to have a copy on the Portal pages.
Note: Beyond Stonehenge Walk: What Makes A World Heritage Site Landscape, 27th July. Note, I don't know where they are visiting on the walk, but I chose an interesting and little known barrow near the visitor centre that they might well visit
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