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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Giant's Grave Barrow CemeteryCountry: England County: Wiltshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Marlborough Nearest Village: Aldbourne
Map Ref: SU24557641
Latitude: 51.486113N Longitude: 1.647827W
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 |
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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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TheWhiteRider visited on 18th Jun 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Giant's Grave is the name given to the single bell barrow of the cemetery, the remaining four barrows being bowl. The cemetery is divided over two sites located on the western side of the Aldbourne valley overlooking the Four Barrows Cemetery on the ridge to the east.
The easternmost sites comprises one bell and two bowl barrows located at the end of a thin strip of woodland. The bell barrow remains 2m high and 20m wide. The two bowl barrows are discernible on the ground but only to a height of 0.5m.
The remaining two barrows are located around 100 west of the others in a field. Only one of these is extant to a height of 1.5m.
All the barrows have been subject to excavation with finds including cremations, barbed abd tanged arrow heads, bone pins and tweezers in the bell barrow, and a circular cist, bone tweezers, a wrist guard, pottery and beads being found in the bowl barrows.
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