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<< Our Photo Pages >> Harters Hill - Ancient Trackway in England in Somerset

Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 16 August 2007  Page Views: 7634

Multi-periodSite Name: Harters Hill
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.588 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Somerset Type: Ancient Trackway
Nearest Town: Glastonbury
Map Ref: ST529430
Latitude: 51.184277N  Longitude: 2.675268W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 Destroyed Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 1 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 3

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Harters Hill
Harters Hill submitted by Andy B : Harters Hill excavation - The remains of a late Bronze Age ritual alignment of oak piles and small stakes surrounded by masses of worked wood, that was built in a wetland in 1076 BC. Desiccation has caused the overlying peat deposits to oxidise, shrink and waste away until the ground surface has reached the tops of the oak piles. Now the wooden structure itself is beginning to be damaged by desicc... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ritual Alignment in Somerset. Harters Hill excavation - The remains of a late Bronze Age ritual alignment of oak piles and small stakes surrounded by masses of worked wood, that was built in a wetland in 1076 BC.

Desiccation has caused the overlying peat deposits to oxidise, shrink and waste away until the ground surface has reached the tops of the oak piles. Now the wooden structure itself is beginning to be damaged by desiccation.

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Harters Hill
Harters Hill submitted by Andy B : Harters Hill pile toolmarks - Well preserved toolmarks made by a bronze axe, forming a point on an oak pile from a ritual wooden structure at Harters Hill. The pile is from a tree felled in 1076 BC. As the site dries out the toolmarks will distort and the sapwood, that allows such a precise dating by dendrochronology, will decay. Photo copyright Somerset County Council. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Harters Hill
Harters Hill submitted by Andy B : Harters Hill dry - The threat to the waterlogged sites is caused by poor summer irrigation, as shown here by the almost dry ditch bordering the field. Photo copyright Somerset County Council. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Harters Hill
Harters Hill submitted by Andy B : Harters Hill pile toolmarks - Well preserved toolmarks made by a bronze axe, forming a point on an oak pile from a ritual wooden structure at Harters Hill. The pile is from a tree felled in 1076 BC. As the site dries out the toolmarks will distort and the sapwood, that allows such a precise dating by dendrochronology, will decay. Photo copyright Somerset County Council. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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ST5243 : Christ Church, Coxley by Roger Cornfoot
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ST5243 : Christ Church, Coxley by David Dixon
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ST5243 : Coxley, Main Road (A39) and Christ Church by David Dixon
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ST5243 : Coxley, Christ Church by Bill Henderson
by Bill Henderson
©2006(licence)

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Re: Harters Hill by Anonymous on Wednesday, 22 August 2007
Here is a link to our SCC website which has some more details of the project.

http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/cultureheritage/heritage/projects/marisp/

We also have our Historic Environment Record on-line and megalithic portal people may be interested in having a look at that:

http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/sop.asp?flash=true
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