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DigsSite Name: Bolton-le-Sands Barrow Alternative Name: Digventures Barrowed Time ProjectCountry: England County: Lancashire Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Morecambe
Map Ref: SD4901467624
Latitude: 54.101966N Longitude: 2.781209W
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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SumDoood visited - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 3 Access: 3 It looks like nothing more than a drumlin. Access is across fields. No public rights of way, so to avoid hassle, be polite.
Almost as soon as we hit the Bronze Age layer, the Venturers started uncovering big blocks of stone, as well as dense concentrations of pebbles at the far end of each arm of our cross-shaped trench. We knew the barrow monument reached to the furthest corners of our trench, making it at least 20m in diameter.
To find out, we’d sunk slots into each of the trenches to reveal the features in section. We even sunk one in along the full length of the eastern arm. Sure enough, there was distinct and concentrated layer of stone showing up, just like in the south arm.
With more excavation a clear pattern emerged. What had been separate, but similarly dense, concentrations of stone in each arm of the trench seemed to be joining up, allowing us to say with ever-increasing confidence that we were in fact dealing with a continuous ring of cobbles enclosing the hilltop like a donut – enough to pronounce that this barrow had at one point in its life, probably been a ring cairn.
More at DigVentures:
http://digventures.com/tag/barrowed-time/
Note: DigVentures find a barrow / ring cairn, and an amazingly well preserved Bronze Age cremation burial, a rare occurrence in northwest England
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