<< Our Photo Pages >> Week Down Barrows - Barrow Cemetery in England in Isle of Wight
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Week Down BarrowsCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.281 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Isle of Wight Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Ventnor Nearest Village: St. Lawrence
Map Ref: SZ542779 Landranger Map Number: 196
Latitude: 50.598316N Longitude: 1.235557W
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 |
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cliffrich visited on 5th Dec 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 2 Roughly a 30min walk uphill from the road but worth it when you get there! Three nicely surviving examples (approx 2-3mtrs high and 20-30mtr dia) which, however, have been excavated and, as usual, has ruined the tops of all three. They are close together but you can't see them until you are near due to the brow of the hill. Excellent ambience - the nicest I have come across on the Island so far, and I felt that I was only too welcome to visit, and I could have stayed all day meditating among them.
The areas surrounding the barrows have lumps and suspicious rises in the ground so there may be many more flattened barrows (the site, after-all, is recorded as a Cemetery rather than three individual barrows!). The Ventnor Golf Club is nearby, again with suspicious rises in the ground. All-in-all well worth a visit especially if you want to contact the ancestors.
The southern barrow, furthest from the bridleway, is the largest, partially covered by gorse bushes. Across the valley to the north is situated the cemetery on Luccombe Down; the lone barrow of 'Lowtherville' is about 500m to the east.
The barrows are on private land - you need to duck under the sheep fence for a closer look, although the mounds are visible from the bridleway.
Update July 2024: For more information on this site, see the Historic England Entry ID 1010004, "Three bowl barrows 540m east of Week Farm: part of a round barrow cemetery on Week Down". Just to the north, another bowl barrow is recorded as ID 10010003.
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