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General Forum >> Bradenstoke Priory Wilts, Possible ancient site
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Bradenstoke Priory Wilts, Possible ancient site |
Starjump
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|  Posted 15-01-2012 at 21:12
Hello all,
New to the forum. Just wondered if anyone had ever been to visit this site near Lyneham. Went yesterday.
It was a Christian Priory right through the medieval period and survived up until the 1920's. An American then bought the property, pulled half of it down and shipped the roof and stone all over the place. The ruins stand today among piles of building ready for being shipped but just left. Complete destruction of what did look pretty nice. Please check images
The current owners - Farmers - Its in their garden are lovely and accepting of visitors. Telling me the history of the place and keeping it in a good condition. They told me that the barn part was taken away like a jigsaw and stored in a Californian warehouse in crates - Theres an urge to get it back and plans underfoot for appeals etc...
Anyway - History states that theres a Holy Spring here, a sacred spring. However more interesting is the layout and landscaping of the hill its on - reminiscent of a hillfort, banks and ditches. definite neolithic manipulation. It just smacks of it and another hill possibly quarter of a mile away to the north was just shouting look at me too!
Looking on google sat imagery it looks even like a long barrow in one of the fields to the NE of the farm, clearly discoloured. As I drove up the lane past tudor houses there were also large lumps of broken Sarsen stone. When you look at the interactive map theres also a big gap, an empty space in sites right where this location is. I clicked on the middle of the empty space, zoomed in and the name Bradenstoke was dead bang centre.
Just wondered if anyone has done any detective work here or been to visit? Any dowsing results? It definitely pre dates the Chritian site but cannot find any official details.
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Matt
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Starjump
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| Posted 15-01-2012 at 21:23
Sorry the images:
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| Posted 11-02-2012 at 15:02
I think you are refering to Clack Mount just to the north of the old priory It is noted as a tumulus on early maps when the village was known as Clack (up until the mid 20th centuary) Clack is an unusual name with no definite origin although a clack or norse mill is a type of watermill, and it could also derive from the norman name Klakk-r
There is name evidence of it's origin as a barrow - the area now covered by the runway was once known as Barrow End Common
Some consider it to be of Norman origin King writes small motte enclosed in angular ward. A polygonal island surrounded by a ditch, c250m NE of Bradenstoke Priory, with two mounds, the smaller of which is a WWII pillbox; the second mound measures 19m in diameter at the base and is 1.5m high. This is almost certainly, in its present form, a post-medieval prospect mount.'
Wilts SMR records as 'Probable Medieval motte and bailey castle mound and some fragments of Medieval pottery.'
Creighton rejects writing the mound is not ditched and place-name evidence suggests it possible started as a barrow. The trapezoidal enclosure has been described as a fishpond.
Personally I think they are all right and early long barrow used by Klakk-r the norman as a defensive position and then altered into a garden feature/lookout post by the monks before once again becomming a defensive site as recently as 1940
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Starjump
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| Posted 22-02-2012 at 22:15
thanks for the info, really useful. Interesting village. A dowser friend of mine is picking up some stuff too.
Cheers
Mt
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