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Dyrham Camp
Date Added: 1st Jul 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dyrham Camp submitted by Thorgrim on 22nd Aug 2003. Dyrham Camp, otherwise known as Hinton Hillfort, is best seen from high land in Dyrham Park (National Trust) Dating from the Iron Age, it was the likely site of the Battle of Dyrham in 577 AD when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells us that the invading Saxons under "Cuthwine and Ceawlin fought against the Britons and slew three kings, Coinmail, Condidan and Farimail at the place which is called Dyrham; and they captured three cities, Gloucester, Cirencester and Bath"
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Log Text: Limited visit to part of fort to NW of road - whetted my appetite for a return for more detailed inspection
Dyrham and Hinton
Date Added: 1st Jul 2011
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 2 Access 5
Dyrham and Hinton submitted by dooclay on 11th Aug 2024. Another slight swelling in the right, foreground could also be remnants?
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Log Text: Easy to locate where it should be but absolutely no evidence of site remaining (seems now to be ploughed out) but Hillfort just down the road (to the West) quite intriguing
Money Tump
Date Added: 25th Jun 2011
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Money Tump submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 25th Jun 2011. The tump itself from the E - as you can see it's not in a brilliant condition.
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Log Text: Easy to find and to get to - should be another bowl barrow in next field - but no sign
Westwood (Gloucestershire)
Date Added: 25th Jun 2011
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Westwood (Gloucestershire) submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 25th Jun 2011. Probably the best view from SSW.
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Log Text: Nice setting - loads of damage to Barrow - covered in brambles
Juniper Hill
Date Added: 25th Jun 2011
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Juniper Hill submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 25th Jun 2011. From S looking up W side.
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Log Text: These Cross Dykes are quite interesting - particularly figuring out why they were positioned where they are now found - where does this one protect - probably from attack from up the small combe to the West but where in the East?
Crippet's Barrow
Date Added: 24th Jun 2011
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Crippet's Barrow submitted by Celia_Haddon on 3rd Nov 2004. CRIPPETS OR SHURDINGTON BARROW, COBERLEY. SO 9342 1737
A surprisingly high long barrow made into a landscape feature by Scots pines planted on it in l890, just off a footpath. Planting up barrow protects from the plough, even tree roots destroy the barrow features. The area is still called Barrow piece. At the east end, which was excavated before l779, a flat stone is all that is visible now. In “Archeological Handbook of the county of Gloucester” of 1883 G.B. Witts wrotethat the early exc...
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Log Text: This could be my favourite - quite easy to get to -
Haresfield Beacon and Ring
Date Added: 24th Jun 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Haresfield Beacon and Ring submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 24th Jun 2011. From the same spot looking NNW over the inside of the Fort
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Log Text: Well worth a visit on a clear weekday - superb views
Haresfield Dyke Camp
Date Added: 24th Jun 2011
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Log Text: Not easy to appreciate and gives some food for thought
Haresfield Barrow
Date Added: 24th Jun 2011
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Haresfield Barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 24th Jun 2011. Taken from NNW - OK - so it is a bit like 'Where's Wally?' but it is there - plum centre - as the next picture will show
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Log Text: Shown as Tumuli on OS Explorer 179 - not at all impressive
Camp Barrow
Date Added: 24th Jun 2011
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Camp Barrow North submitted by hamish on 23rd Feb 2004. Camp Barrow North - the remains of the Portal. SO914091.Near Bisley.
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Log Text: North is a Long Barrow and South a Round Barrow according to most commentators - I am not sure I agree - perhaps N was a Long Barrow when it was whole but then S now still looks like a small Long Barrow rather than a Round one (but it is marked Tumulus on the OS Map) or was the RB built on the S end of the LB
Coberley
Date Added: 24th Jun 2011
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Coberley submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 29th Jun 2011. Recent damage to NW corner
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Log Text: Unusual to see a barrow cut through by excavations - some wear to barrow at NW corner showing courses of stone inside head of barrow
West Tump
Date Added: 24th Jun 2011
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
West Tump submitted by hamish on 3rd Apr 2005. This is the top of the Barrow,you can see how it is being eroded by mountain bikes.
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Log Text: Not that hard to find - just keep walking up hill from the sawmills (along a pathway that starts -left- between the gate to the sawmills and the gate by the old cricket pavilion and then take the second oblique right keeping the higher part of the hill/wood just slightly to the left of your direction of travel) - just short of the top is West Tump - worth the effort
Honeycombe Farm
Date Added: 24th Jun 2011
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2011. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 2 Access 5
Log Text: Where this is supposed to be is very easy to get to and even easier be sure where you are when you get there. The Long Barrow is marked on OS Explorer as being where a footpath crosses the local B road - there is no sign of the barrow's continued existence - at least no sign in crop level (wheat) - may need to check again after harvest but I am not hopeful
Randwick Cross Dyke
Date Added: 20th Jun 2011
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Randwick Cross Dyke submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 20th Jun 2011. The National Trust Sign.
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Log Text: Comes over the spur from the NW and plunges down the other side to the SE - but where does it guard? - certainly not the Haresfield Hillforts to the N - deep quite steep sided and really quite impressive
Randwick Barrows
Date Added: 20th Jun 2011
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Randwick Barrows submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 20th Jun 2011. The pair - SW in the foreground and the NE at 2 o'clock.
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Log Text: I think there are others close by - unusual for there to be just a pair
Randwick Long Barrow
Date Added: 20th Jun 2011
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Feb 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Randwick Long Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 13th Apr 2009. The massive bulk of Randwick longbarrow viewed from the north.
The remaining mound is about 55 metres in length, up to half as wide, and still 4 metres in height.
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Log Text: What a whoppa! Those horns at the entrance are impressive
St. Mary's Well (Boxwell)
Date Added: 18th Jun 2011
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
St. Mary's Well (Boxwell) submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 18th Jun 2011. Somewhat overgrown now - 18-06-2011
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Log Text: The Nuns looked after it better than the new owners - shame really
Boxwell Lodge
Date Added: 18th Jun 2011
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
Boxwell Lodge submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 18th Jun 2011. The Stone from E
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Log Text: Site seriously damaged but Boxwell Stone good value
Kings Stanley Dyke
Date Added: 17th Jun 2011
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Kings Stanley Dyke submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 17th Jun 2011. And half way between Buckholt Wood and Bown Hill is the strange Penn Hill Cross Dyke.
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Log Text: This one got me thinking - probably protects entrance to Uley Bury 1 1/2 miles to the west
Bown Hill Bowl Barrow
Date Added: 17th Jun 2011
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bown Hill Bowl Barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 17th Jun 2011. At the Western end there is a double bonus looking NNW - in the foreground a Bowl Barrow and afar the Malverns
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Log Text: Hard Work on rough ground - better viewed from BHLB