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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bitton Round Barrow Alternative Name: Bitton 1, Bitton Bell BarrowCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 3.129 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gloucestershire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Bristol Nearest Village: Bitton
Map Ref: ST67806945
Latitude: 51.423138N Longitude: 2.46449W
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 |
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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 |
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4clydesdale7 visited on 6th Sep 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4 Take one stable owner with several reels of electric fencing making horse pens, combine him/her with the local badger community and what do you get? - a seriously damaged round/bell barrow fast becoming an eyesore - never mind the potential for an electric shock even on the Public Footpath!!! Pity because the older part of Bitton can be quite pretty - never mind the Boyd and Avon Valleys
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The Barrow is about 30m in diameter and 2m high but the ambience is poor with the rather forlorn mound surrounded by an electrical web marking mini 'horse paddocks' - close by is the doubtful Bitton Camp and to the south of Bitton and west of Swineford lie two fields Holm Mead and Mickle Mead forming the north bank of the Avon littered with old stones - almost immediately across the Avon (in Somerset) lies a Saxon Burial Ground.
Mentioned in the Transactions of Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 1960 Vol 79 part 1 p 104 and on the pastscape website South Gloucestershire: Bitton: 200847
from mishkin
Bitton Barrow is a large round barrow situated at the confluence of the River Boyd and Avon. This barrow is near to the Roman 'Via Julia' road, and it is said that there is a "heathen temple" situated somewhere by the church in the background. Also, marked on a 19th century map were several stones (now disappeared) in a field very close to the barrow; the field is called Mickle Mead and there is an Anglo Saxon burial ground marked on the map just across the river.
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