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Sea Mark
Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 11th Dec 2018. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 3
Sea Mark submitted by RingPaw on 18th Jul 2006. Looking west to ridgeway road; probable barrow site is the brownish round area in the foreground.
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Log Text: 12.07.2020
Visited the Ashey Down site yet again because I have found even more listed barrows! At this cemetery there are up to 20 barrows listed plus several Pillow Mound! This is by far the largest cemetery that I have found on the Island - I have visited all the Historic England's listed barrow sites on the Island now (I think!).
The barrows near the Seamark are actually in the field to the South West of (behind) the Mark. At this time of year grasses have covered the fields so unable to identify any visible earthworks but there are five barrows listed in this field.
There are also two Medieval sites at the very bottom of the slope (next to the woods) to the East of the site but very difficult to see any evidence - we'll just have to go with Historic England and IWCC on these.
On top of all this there is a field system with the ridge and furrow techniques and a noticeable Enclosure marked by banks and ditches; the banks being approx. 0.75m high. Lots to see if you know what you're looking for!
Ashey Down Cemetery
Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Ashey Down Cemetery submitted by RingPaw on 18th Jul 2006. The site from the west, showing 'avenue' effect of the grouping.
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Log Text: After a long walk I found that it was all worth it. The barrows are good examples and easily recognised. To walk through them gives a good feeling, almost though as if you are trespassing! Well worth the effort. Once you are there it is a short walk to the Seamark where you will find other, less obvious, barrows and further suspicious lumps in adjacent fields the other side of the roads.
See: https://historicengland.org.uk/sitesearch?searchType=Site&search=ashey%20down%20cemetery&page=&filterOption=&facetValues=&pageId=38601&searchResultsPerPage=20.
UPDATE 10.07.20): have just found several other barrows at the same site. All-in-all there 19 barrows listed with Historic England!
Map ref's: SZ 57191 87626; SZ 57692 87734; SZ 57384 87641; SZ 57210 87700; SZ 57335 87517; SZ 57903 87779; SZ 57227 87513, amongst others! All ref's from Historic England's listings.
See videos - https://youtu.be/VDNMetj0lwI
https://youtu.be/TlH3Oibtvp4?t=7
You will also find a Medieval field system, as you will a very noticeable two-sided enclosure banks and ditches (another page). There are also two sites of Medieval settlements but these are scarcely visible.
Highdown barrows
Date Added: 20th May 2020
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Highdown barrows submitted by JimChampion on 5th Aug 2007. Looking north at the pair of barrows, which are aligned north-aouth. Both mounds are around 10 metres in diameter and less than a metre high, the southern one being slightly smaller than the other.
Hurst Castle on Hurst Spit can be seen in the Solent to the north.
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Log Text: Historic England List: 1010511
Two barrows side by side, one a little smaller than the other one. Neither are large but they are reasonably well preserved. One could walk by them without noticing them! A 15-20min walk up the hillside from the Tennyson Memorial Car Park in Old Alum Bay Road.
I visited this site because there are lots of features up there, including WW2 earthworks, an ancient enclosure, a field system, and an open barrow/mortuary barrow a mile or so East (towards Freshwater Bay) of the Tennyson Monument. I will add these other monuments when I can.
Absolutely grandiose views and scenery, being able to see nearly half the Island! 10min drive to Alum Bay pleasure park, or Freshwater Bay, or Totland and the bay.
Chillerton Fort
Date Added: 20th May 2020
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Chillerton Fort submitted by cliffrich on 6th Jan 2020. The only surviving bank of the fort earthwork
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Log Text: None
Heatherdown
Date Added: 4th Mar 2020
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Mar 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Heatherdown submitted by cliffrich on 4th Mar 2020. Heatherdown#7. Showing the square ditch and square barrows
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Log Text: Note the square 'round' barrows, also the square surrounding ditch. The square ditch and barrow/s are unique within the Isle of Wight
Headon Warren
Date Added: 2nd Mar 2020
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Mar 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Headon Warren submitted by vicky on 10th Dec 2003. This eroded but prominent barrow is located on a ridge above Alum Bay on the Isle of Wight.
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Log Text: A reasonably well preserved large-ish barrow albeit excavated with a large hollow at the apex. Apparently King Henry III may have excavated this barrow in search for treasure to fund defence costs/war costs. Absolutely lovely views of both the Needles also of Hurst Castle. Two other barrows are visible nearby with an unusual ditch (only one of which that I've found on the Isle of Wight - separate location on this site). Well worth the trek and a perfect place for a Druid to have a retreat! A lovely and friendly ambience.
Chillerton Fort
Date Added: 6th Jan 2020
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 30th Dec 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Chillerton Fort submitted by cliffrich on 6th Jan 2020. A lone barrow a distance away from the fort and other barrows
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Log Text: Chillerton Fort and round barrows. Historic England ref: 1010012. Map ref: SZ4799 8388. Historic England state an 'unfinished' fort/promontory. Also known as 'Five Barrows', not to be confused with another Isle of Wight site called 'Five Barrows' at Brooke. Three barrows found and possibly another two (at least) in uneven ground. A pleasant ambience
Stonehenge.
Date Added: 1st Jan 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jan 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Stone-16 at Stonehenge. submitted by Feanor on 4th Oct 2017. Shot specifically for Angie Lake.
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Log Text: If you visit don't forget to see Woodhenge which is all part of the huge site which includes longbarrows/Cursus, an avenue, and lots of round barrows
Woodhenge (Wiltshire)
Date Added: 1st Jan 2020
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jan 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Woodhenge (Wiltshire) submitted by sem on 7th Sep 2015. Woodhenge -The Model
One picture taken of a 3D model conceived during a wet weekend. Projects like this can reveal previously unseen features.
I would point out that the henge itself is now thought to have been built after the timbers decayed.
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Log Text: Totally disappeared but wood post holes marked by concrete posts. Good ambience. A walk finds a long barrow and the Cuckoo Stone. A cairn in the middle of the circles signifies a grave of a child.
Bowcombe Down
Date Added: 31st Dec 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 29th Dec 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
Bowcombe Down submitted by RingPaw on 10th Feb 2006. Views of Solent from this Barrow site.
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Log Text: Nothing really to see here. A slight rise in the ground is all to notice.
Week Down Barrows
Date Added: 5th Dec 2019
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 5th Dec 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Week Down Barrows submitted by RingPaw on 2nd Nov 2006. Northernmost barrow of three.
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Log Text: Roughly a 30min walk uphill from the road but worth it when you get there! Three nicely surviving examples (approx 2-3mtrs high and 20-30mtr dia) which, however, have been excavated and, as usual, has ruined the tops of all three. They are close together but you can't see them until you are near due to the brow of the hill. Excellent ambience - the nicest I have come across on the Island so far, and I felt that I was only too welcome to visit, and I could have stayed all day meditating among them.
The areas surrounding the barrows have lumps and suspicious rises in the ground so there may be many more flattened barrows (the site, after-all, is recorded as a Cemetery rather than three individual barrows!). The Ventnor Golf Club is nearby, again with suspicious rises in the ground. All-in-all well worth a visit especially if you want to contact the ancestors.
Firestone Copse
Date Added: 24th Sep 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Firestone Copse submitted by cliffrich on 11th May 2019. 2. Firestone Copse
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Log Text: Looks like the second barrow has been ploughed out. The first barrow is just identifiable but looks, also, to have been mostly ploughed out. Sadly, the farmer is using the barrow for crops. I am aware of a usual 2mtr exclusion zone around all ancient barrows.
Isle of Wight Garlic Farm
Date Added: 4th Aug 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 2019. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Isle of Wight Garlic Farm submitted by Andy B on 9th Apr 2017. The display in the cafe / education centre
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Log Text: A small museum/display of ancient flint work and a round bowl which has been reconstructed. The enclosure has a sign in front of it but the earthwork is so eroded that it can't be seen from the ground, perhaps a better view from the air.
Eaglehead Copse I.
Date Added: 21st Jun 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 3
Eaglehead Copse I. submitted by RingPaw on 20th Jul 2006. The barrows as marked on the map should be on top of this small hill; perhaps visible when the crops have come in. They would have formed part of a visual ridgeway network, as with so many prehistoric features on the Isle of Wight.
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Log Text: Private land so permission is required to visit. Eaglehead Copse I, II, and III are all in one field not far from the Ashey Sea Mark. All of the barrows are hardly visible, the highest one around 0.5mtr high. If you don't know the tell-tale signs you won't find them! I noticed several other suspicious mounds which may be more barrows than the six already listed elsewhere. I have taken pictures at the GPS co-ordinates of the barrows which show little evidence, if any that they are there. As is sadly normal on the Island these barrows are not protected by physical boundaries :(
Eaglehead Copse II.
Date Added: 21st Jun 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 3
Eaglehead Copse II. submitted by cliffrich on 21st Jun 2019. Slight undulations in the ground
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Log Text: Private land so permission is required to visit. Eaglehead Copse I, II, and III are all in one field not far from the Ashey Sea Mark. All of the barrows are hardly visible, the highest one around 0.5mtr high. If you don't know the tell-tale signs you won't find them! I noticed several other suspicious mounds which may be more barrows than the six already listed elsewhere. I have taken pictures at the GPS co-ordinates of the barrows which show little evidence, if any that they are there. As is sadly normal on the Island these barrows are not protected by physical boundaries :(
Eaglehead Copse III.
Date Added: 21st Jun 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 3
Eaglehead Copse III. submitted by cliffrich on 21st Jun 2019. You can vaguely see the undulations of the barrow/s
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Log Text: Private land so permission is required to visit. Eaglehead Copse I, II, and III are all in one field not far from the Ashey Sea Mark. All of the barrows are hardly visible, the highest one around 0.5mtr high. If you don't know the tell-tale signs you won't find them! I noticed several other suspiscious mounds which may be more barrows than the six already listed elsewhere. I have taken pictures at the GPS co-ordinates of the barrows which show little evidence, if any that they are there. As is sadly normal on the Island these barrows are not protected by physical boundaries :(
Chessell Down - Coombe Plantation
Date Added: 21st Jun 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 26th Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
Chessell Down - Coombe Plantation submitted by cliffrich on 26th Mar 2019. SZ 40276 84964
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Log Text: None
Newbarn Down Barrows
Date Added: 21st Jun 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
Newbarn Down Barrows submitted by cliffrich on 25th Mar 2019. SZ 4485 8552
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Log Text: None
Shorwell 2
Date Added: 21st Jun 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Feb 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Shorwell 2 submitted by RingPaw on 20th May 2006. Barrow in foreground, more obvious on site, but largely ruined.
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Log Text: Having lived in Shorwell as a vicar's son for 8yrs in the 70's I never knew of this gem! Quite a noticeable barrow, even from the approach, however once on top of the downs you need to keep to the nearest side of the fence in order to notice the barrow. Follow the far side of the fence and you will miss it (my mistake!). It is easily noticed as you approach it from the untrodden footpath so you have to go through bracken to get to it. Once there you'll find that it's a medium sized barrow, reasonably well preserved, albeit covered in bracken and with Badger/Fox holes so beware!. The ambience for me was noticeable but not overpowering, unlike the Black Barrow of Brighstone.
See video - https://youtu.be/L7jTxUYCZkA
Luccombe Down
Date Added: 13th May 2019
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Luccombe Down submitted by RingPaw on 2nd Nov 2006. Large barrow just to the east of the bridleway.
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Log Text: An absolutely lovely walk up to the cemetery! Loads of barrows up there. Many barrows are unlisted and unmapped but have been excavated. I visited expecting to find eleven barrows but found many more. I would guess that there are around 30 barrows+ up there. As usual on the Island all the barrows that I have found had been excavated and not returned to their original condition :(. There are probably many more under the bramble/undergrowth. Please see video on Utube at Luke Targett, plus many more. I have submitted only a few of the many many photo's that I took. Some show no obvious signs of a barrow but rest assured that they are really there - they've just not come out in the photo!