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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Six HillsCountry: England County: Hertfordshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Stevenage
Map Ref: TL23742365 Landranger Map Number: 166
Latitude: 51.897667N Longitude: 0.203025W
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 |
0 | no data |
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JohnLindsay visited on 1st Jan 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 1 Access: 4 A short walk from Stevenage Station, near the library and the museum.
The new town could have made, and could make, something much more impressive of this I would have thought. It might be worth considering how it works as townscape art.
It is rather amazing they have survived at all.
There is a leaflet available in Stevenage Museum, with a reference to Antiquity, 1936. That deals with Roman, and I doubt that there is anything Roman about a line of six, so Roman here might mean time rather than people.
The mounds are fairly evenly spaced, on a N-S line. Only one is undisturbed, three having large depressions indicating where shafts have been sunk, and the two most southerly have been tunnelled from the sides.
Bikers have left their marks in the form of tyre tracks and runnels across most of the barrows.
Access: Easily accessible outside a modern office building at the junction of the B197 London Road, and Six Hills Way. Amazing that they've survived!
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