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Langridge Wood Cist
Date Added: 8th Sep 2024
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Would like to visit
Langridge Wood Cist submitted by Bladup on 27th Sep 2014. Langridge Wood Cist.
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Meacombe Cist
Date Added: 8th Sep 2024
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Meacombe Cist submitted by hamish on 14th Nov 2004. A fine little chambered tomb, found by chance.
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Pool Farm Cist
Date Added: 2nd Sep 2024
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Oct 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pool Farm Cist submitted by Adam Stanford on 27th Sep 2004. The decorated Cist slab as displayed in Bristol Museum. Originally in position on the south (or sw) side of the Pool Farm Cist, which was contained within a round barrow. Excavation revealed the cremated remains of a child and an adult. Unfortunately when the carvings of cup marks and feet were eventually noticed, they were painted red to make them stand out. However these carvings do have similarities with the Calderstones in Liverpool and others in Scandinavia. Info from Bristol Museum.
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Log Text: I visited this site today, the lady at the farm was amenable to me parking my car by the farmhouse and showed me the way to the cist. Through 2 gates then walk about 25 metres in a roughly 45 degrees angle to your left. You’ll see it poking out through all the nettles. I thought this was a very touching burial site. Obviously the rock art on the cap stone shows the unique effort the people made in honouring the deceased, seems to me that the footprints belong to the loved ones that they were leaving behind and therefore a memory aide on their journey to the afterlife. Perhaps the cup marks represent the star system where the afterlife was meant to be, who knows. I did get the impression that the top of the slab looked like it had been “pecked” to leave a nice finish. The rocks used in the tomb’s construction were mostly different from one another adding colour to the tomb. I found a beautiful rock within the tomb which had quite striking naturally formed grooves in it adding to the decoration. The deceased I feel was very sadly missed.
There was an interesting rock at one end which appeared to have a straight groove cut into it (why?). The rock art is on the underside of the (exact) copy slab but as the it slopes the wrong way, it was impossible for me to get a clear picture of the whole thing. Standing there in the nettles, in my shorts, in the rain and doubled over it was also impossible to discern the carved footprints in the copy slab.