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<< Our Photo Pages >> New King Barrows - Barrow Cemetery in England in Wiltshire

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: New King Barrows Alternative Name: King Barrow Ridge
Country: England County: Wiltshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Marlborough  Nearest Village: Avebury
Map Ref: SU13454222  Landranger Map Number: 184
Latitude: 51.179058N  Longitude: 1.808966W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.67 Ambience: 3.25 Access: 3.25

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by davidmorgan : Two of the New King Barrows. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery in Wiltshire

From SolarMegalith: New King barrow cemetery consists of 6 aligned Bronze Age barrows - 4 bowl barrows and 2 bell barrows.

Amesbury 27 bell barrow - 4,2 m high bell barrow with partly preserved quarry ditch. Pastscape.

Amesbury 28 bell barrow - a large bell barrow of 49 m diameter, partly disturbed at the east. Pastscape.

Amesbury 29 bowl barrow - a Bronze Age bowl barrow of 51 m diameter, partly disturbed at the east. Pastscape

Amesbury 30 bowl barrow - a 3,2 m high bowl barrow of 41 m diameter. Pastscape.

Amesbury 31 bowl barrow - a well-preserved bowl barrow with partly preserved quarry ditch. Pastscape.

Amesbury 32 bowl barrow - the most northernly located barrow has 44 m in diameter and 2,6 m of height.

The barrow cemetery is perfectly visible from the distance, especially from Stonehenge.
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Stonehenge from New King Barrows
Stonehenge from New King Barrows submitted by Orpbit : Wide angle of Stonehenge from New King Barrows. This was stitched from two images. All in all I took over 400 images! (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by TimPrevett : Winter Solstice 2010 - The New King Barrows are marvellous to visit - including these very old and characterful Beech Trees. Look at the age of some of the graffiti carved into trunks too. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by davidmorgan : One of the northernmost of the New King Barrows. (Vote or comment on this photo)

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by davidmorgan : The southernmost two New King Barrows. (Vote or comment on this photo)

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by davidmorgan : One of the New King Barrows.

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by TimPrevett : New King Barrows as seen with one of the barrows closer to Stonehenge Central. (2 comments)

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by AngieLake : The bosomy curves of two of the New King Barrows on a lovely sunny evening (19th June 2012).

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by SolarMegalith : Amesbury 27 bell barrow - view from the SW (photo taken on November 2011).

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by SolarMegalith : Amesbury 29 bowl barrow - view from the west (photo taken on November 2011).

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by TimPrevett : Winter Solstice 2010 - The New King Barrows from The Avenue

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by AngieLake : One of the New King Barrows towards the northern end of the row.

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by AngieLake : A truly lovely time of the year to visit this area with the new leaves breaking open on those lovely old beech trees. A site noticeboard here, about half-way along the line of barrows.

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by AngieLake : There were some beautiful beech trees bordering the lines of barrows. This is about mid-way along the row.

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by AngieLake : I think this was the 3rd barrow from the south.

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by AngieLake : This was the first barrow at the south end of the ridge, just north of the A303.

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by davidmorgan : One of the New King Barrows.

Old King Barrows, New King Barrows
Old King Barrows, New King Barrows submitted by TimPrevett : One of the National Trust interpretive signs for both Old and New King Barrows, and the landscape.

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by Bladup : One of the New King Barrows, These barrows are unusual around here because they're made mainly of turf (not the usual flint)

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by Bladup : New King Barrows

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by Bladup : New King Barrows (on the left).

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by AngieLake : Looking south here along the line of the New King Barrows from their northern end. Many years ago people may have been processing from left to right, where I'm standing to take this shot, on their way to Stonehenge. Jackie leans over the fence at the point where [the nearby information board tells us] The Avenue's southern edge crossed this path at right-angles en route from the River Avon. Gr...

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by AngieLake : If anyone wonders what Stonehenge looks like from the New King Barrows, this may help, temporarily, until someone puts up a clearer shot. The sun was very strong this evening [19.6.2012] (Sem, have you some, from when you were helping Jack?)

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by SolarMegalith : Amesbury 32 bowl barrow - the most northernly located monument of New King Barrows cemetery (photo taken on November 2011).

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by SolarMegalith : Amesbury 31 bowl barrow with Amesbury 32 bowl barrow in the background (photo taken on November 2011).

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Re: New King Barrows by Andy B on Monday, 23 March 2020
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Prof. Howard M R Williams writes: King Barrow Ridge is one area of particularly striking barrow survival due to light woodland through recent centuries. Most barrows form into clusters called ‘barrow cemeteries’ in either linear, nucleated or dispersed arrangements. Upon King Barrow Ridge we find the most striking example of the first category of these: a linear arrangement of barrows – the ‘New King Barrows’ south of the line of the Avenue, the ‘Old King Barrows’ to the north. This is one of a series of linear cemeteries close to Stonehenge. Its arrangement is created by the topography: the cemetery follows the N-S ridge between the Avon and Stonehenge Bottom.

Bowden et al. don’t quite believe the classification of barrow cemeteries as either linear, nucleated or dispersed, since many cemeteries might contain elements of each. Moreover, associations with earlier Neolithic monuments might only be part of the story. For the King Barrow Ridge, they observe that the natural topography, rather than the pre-existing Neolithic long barrow Amesbury 42 seems to have directed its development. Furthermore, when linear cemeteries are recognised, they warn against assuming a one-direction linear development, with Winterbourne Stoke and Normanton Down suggesting more complex and fluid sequences within the overall linear arrangements. Therefore, for the King Barrows, we cannot be sure whether the barrows started at the north or the south and were added sequentially, began in the centre of the ridge and expanded out in both directions, or had multiple foci that joined together.

These points notwithstanding, while not all barrows surrounding Stonehenge were intervisible with the monument, it is quite possible that the particularly prominent positioning of large mounds of comparable type (rather than a mix of fancy barrows as in other cemeteries) along the King Barrow Ridge was indeed to create a genealogical history of the dead intervisible with Stonehenge. As much as intervisibility with that location exclusively, the barrow cemetery accumulated to frame approaches to Stonehenge and its immediate environs.

More at
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/king-barrows/

Ref: Mark Bowden, Sharon Soutar, David Field and Martyn Barber’s The Stonehenge Landscape: Analysing the Stonehenge World Heritage Site.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/184802116X/megalithicmyst0a
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Re: New King Barrows by davidmorgan on Thursday, 17 December 2009
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I visited these barrows today and forgot to count them. I wonder if there is a number attributed to each of them anywhere? Any idea of a good source to find this out?
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