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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: King Stone Round CairnCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 5.931 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Warwickshire Type: Cairn
Nearest Village: Long Compton
Map Ref: SP2961430968
Latitude: 51.976394N Longitude: 1.570275W
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 |
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KimIannucci visited on 1st Jan 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
ChristopherJones visited - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5 I had seen the stones, but did not realise it was a cairn.
mdensham have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 4.5
From Pastscape (MONUMENT NO. 332802):
"An Early Bronze Age round cairn and a round barrow located close to the King Stone, one of the Rollright Stones group of monuments. The round cairn was discovered in 1982 during trenching of a long mound by the Oxford Archaeological Unit. The long mound had been presumed by some to be a Neolithic long barrow, but the excavations proved it to be natural. The cairn had been constructed on top of it, and measured 17 metres in diameter, its edge defined by a kerb of drystone walling. Several cremation deposits were found, with associated radiocarbon dates suggesting an Early Bronze Age origin. At the centre is a cist of large limestone slabs. This was located but not excavated. The round barrow is located at the west end of the long mound, and excavations showed a short length of ditch apparently separating the two features. However, the barrow was not surrounded by a ditch. The mound survived to less than 0.25 metres in height, and little structural evidence survived. Again several secondary cremations, one in a Collared Urn, and their radiocarbon dates pointed to the Early Bronze Age. Traces of a buried soil beneath the barrow contained a group of Mesolithic flints, including bladelets, microliths and an arrowhead."
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