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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Burnt Hill Dolmen
Country: England County: Oxfordshire Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Chipping Norton  Nearest Village: Chastleton
Map Ref: SP26672865  Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.955703N  Longitude: 1.613313W
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
 2 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 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.
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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
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4clydesdale7 visited on 8th Apr 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Now that excavations have taken place what was originally thought to be a collection of rugge/rugg stones gathered over many hundreds/thousands years of field clearance has been declared to be a chambered tomb over which a 'more modern' (still a couple of hundred years old!) field dry stone wall was built - more detail to follow

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Burnt Hill Dolmen
Burnt Hill Dolmen submitted by hamish : We went looking for a Tumulus on our way to Adlestrop Hill. it was pretty well wrecked. There was supposed to be a Standing Stone which may be this. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Remains of a neolithic portal dolmen, in a very poor state, which can be found in the northeast corner of a little wood, less than a kilometre northeast of Chastleton Barrow fort.

Supposedly one upright and one leaning stone are still to be found here, but nothing very obvious was visible in April 2006.

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Burnt Hill Dolmen submitted by dooclay : More stones in the copse that may be part of the Long Barrow (Vote or comment on this photo)

Burnt Hill Dolmen
Burnt Hill Dolmen submitted by 4clydesdale7 : Four of Crawford's uprights part of the drystone wall two rugge stones (recently cleared from fields close by) and part of the round barrow - probably a 'full house'?! (Vote or comment on this photo)

Burnt Hill Dolmen
Burnt Hill Dolmen submitted by hamish : This would seem to be the Tumulus with a large Beech tree growing out of it. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Burnt Hill Dolmen - Megalithic Portal Meet April 2006
Burnt Hill Dolmen - Megalithic Portal Meet April 2006 submitted by TimPrevett : Searching for stones. Yes, a stone in a hedge. Is it? Isn't it? And why is she grinning? Left to right - anon, Rowan, Martyn "TheCaptain", Adam "Archaeology Safaris", and Andy. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Burnt Hill Dolmen by 4clydesdale7 on Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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The English Heritage website pastscape [Oxfordshire: West Oxfordshire: Chastleton: Monument 332458:] suggests that this is the site of the probable remains of a Round Barrow which sits astride the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire County Boundary adding that there are still suspicions that it may be the remains of a Long Barrow which has suffered seriously from excavations in the past - the northern side of the Barrow has been ploughed out

It was originally described by OGS Crawford in his work 'The Long Barrows of the Cotswolds' 1925 as a 'Round ? Cairn (sic) with 5 uprights in corner in thicket' - the site is surmounted by a 'more modern' (a couple of hundred year old) dry stone wall substantial parts of which remain today - immediately to the S is a deep depression (a robbed area) -

In the vicinity there are numerous other large stones (probably 'rugge' or 'rugg' stones which are large stones often found in an area where a rock strata breaks the surface and over many thousands of years crumbles leaving large stones littering fields which are then cleared by ancient medieval and modern farmers) - such a feature is the limestone ridge that runs NE from Adlestrop, just over the border in east Gloucestershire, to Swerford north of Oxford - the line of which passes through Chastleton

The area was largely ignored by archaeologists until 1972 when a thorough investigation of prehistoric sites in the parish of Chastleton was undertaken by Don Benson and Peter Fasham and reported in Oxoniensia (Vol 37 1972) - this is Site D mentioned in that report - in excavations a number of skull and long bone fragments were found with struck flints and two unidentifiable pottery fragments - thus Crawfords Cairn was upgraded to a Round Barrow - it was called Chastleton Round Barrow - the Barrow remains untouched since and is worth a visit

Also the 'Rugge Stones' remain not just within the wood but some 'in situ' in adjacent fields and more importantly in Crawfords 'Cornwell Circle' some 100m to the SW (referred to on 'Megalithic' as Burnt Hill Long Barrow) and others near Adlestrop Hill Long Barrow
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