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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Saltway Barn Alternative Name: Bibury II
Country: England Type: Chambered Cairn

Map Ref: SP115091 Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.780449N Longitude: 1.834706W
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

Destroyed Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

2 Access:

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.

2 Accuracy:

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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Chambered Cairn in Gloucestershire

This site is composed of a circular chamber built from dry-stone walling with a corbelled roof and short passage, set in a rock-cut pit. It may originally have been covered by a cairn.

Ref: Megalithic Enquiries in the West of Britain, T.G.E.Powell et Al (Liverpool 1969)

Extract from Pastscape: The Saltway Barn long barrow was excavated 1939/45, prior to its destruction for defence purposes, by W F Grimes, who found it to be constructed upon a rock-cut pit 185 ft long by 85 ft wide by 2 to 3 ft deep. Sunk into a central "island" in the pit was a bee-hive chamber 5 1/2 ft high with an entrance passage to the SE. There were two niches in the chamber wall, round which ran a dry-stone-wall bench, and there was also a bench in the entrance passage. A round cairn, possibly built to mislead tomb robbers, adjoined the chamber, and the two structures were surrounded by a complicated system of revetment walls. At the west end between horns was a forecourt closed by dry-stone-walling, and the whole construction was finally covered by a secondary cairn.

The field in which the barrow lies is under a young crop and no surface features are visible. The area has been restored from its former wartime use, as an air field, to arable land.
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SP1108 : A circular walk around Bibury and Ablington [22] by Michael Dibb — by Michael Dibb
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