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Symonds Yat Fort
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2004
Symonds Yat Fort submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Apr 2004. Iron age hillfort on the headland of Symonds Yat Rock, high above a complete U Bend in the river Wye. This promontory hillfort has remains of four rows of ditch and bank ramparts, the largest remaining being the bank on the inside. This is the inner bank.
A lovely place to visit on a nice day Symonds Yat Fort, Symonds Yat Rock, Gloucestershire, SO563157
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Long Stone, Staunton
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2004
Long Stone, Staunton submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Apr 2004. View of this nice standing stone on a foul Sunday afternoon in April 2004. A lot of forest clearance is currently going on around this stone.
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The Grickstone
Date Added: 6th Mar 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2004. My rating: Access 4
The Grickstone submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Apr 2004. Nice standing stone to the south of Grickstone farm, beside a footpath at the corner of a small wood. The stone has about 6 foot in length above ground, but due to the angle at which it leans, is only about 4 feet high. Nicely decorated with lichens. South Gloucestershire, ST777828.
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Log Text: Nice standing stone to the south of Grickstone farm, beside a footpath at the corner of a wood. The stone is about 6 foot in height, but due to the angle at which it leans, is only about 4 feet high. Nicely decorated with lichens.
Grickstone Farm
Date Added: 6th Mar 2022
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2004. My rating: Condition 1
Grickstone Farm submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Apr 2004. Grickstone Farm Long Barrow, South Gloucestershire, ST783833.
This long barrow, once possibly a chambered tomb, has been completely ploughed over, leaving only slight traces of it as a gentle raise in the ground level.
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Log Text: This long barrow has been completely ploughed over, leaving only slight traces of it as a gentle raise in the ground level
Hawkesbury Knoll
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Apr 2004
Hawkesbury Knoll submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Apr 2004. Hawksbury Knoll, Chambered Tomb, South Gloucestershire, ST768872.
The view of the barrow atop Hawkesbury Knoll from the Somerset Monument.
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The Beeracres Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Nov 2004
The Beeracres Stone submitted by thecaptain on 11th Nov 2004. The Beeracres Stone
My new standing stone, almost 6 feet of best Cornish Granite, recently erected in the garden of Beeracres.
Despite a nightmare start to things when getting it delivered, we managed to move it into place and erect it last Sunday afternoon fairly easily, and had a nice little celebratory event.
I think it looks nicely at home here.
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Leighterton Long Barrow
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Nov 2004
Leighterton Long Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 15th Nov 2004. View from the lane at the east by the village school.
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Log Text: Massive long barrow to the east of the village of Leighterton, which can be seen walled in across a couple of fields. I could find no public access. The remains of this barrow are massive, and as is often the case, covered with trees. It looks to be one worthy of further exploration if possible.
Woodleaze Farm
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Nov 2004
Woodleaze Farm submitted by thecaptain on 15th Nov 2004. View looking southeast of the remains of this long barrow, seen just to the south of the track past Woodleaze Farm. It has been completely ploughed over, leaving only traces of it as a slight mound in the field level.
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Blackquarries Hill
Date Added: 13th Sep 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Nov 2004. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Blackquarries Hill submitted by thecaptain on 17th Nov 2004. Blackquarries Hill Long Barrow, seen here in front of the wood in the November evening sunlight. Picture taken from the Cotswold Way to the northwest.
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Log Text: The remains of this long barrow can be seen in a field at the southern end of the ridge between Tyley Bottom and Ozleworth Bottom near Wotton-under-Edge. There is a track which is part of the Cotswold Way which runs round the hill and passes close to the barrow, but I could find no way in for a closer look, although the field was empty and being used by some people flying model aircraft. The barrow remains have been fenced off, and are becoming grown over. I could see a shadowy shape sticking out of the mound, which was probably an old tree stump, but just could have been a bit of old stone.
Symonds Hall Farm
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Nov 2004
Symonds Hall Farm submitted by thecaptain on 18th Nov 2004. Symonds Hall Farm Long Barrow, as seen when approaching from the west.
It can be seen to be in two parts now, and with the odd stone or two to be seen
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Shortwood Hill barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jan 2005
Shortwood Hill barrow submitted by thecaptain on 25th Jan 2005. Shortwood hill barrow viewed from the north
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Shortwood Circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Jan 2005
Shortwood Circle submitted by thecaptain on 26th Jan 2005. Shortwood circle. Seen here silhouetted against a setting January sun.
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Adlestrop Hill
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 2006
Adlestrop Hill submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Apr 2006. Adlestrop Hill long barrow.
Just about found and identified after a long search by about a dozen hardened stonehunters, and a couple of full time archaeologists.
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Ganborough
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jan 2007
Ganborough submitted by thecaptain on 4th Jan 2007. This was obviously once a large and substantial longbarrow sited on a hilltop ridge. But these days it is very easily missed as you drive past on the busy A424 which cuts through its southeastern end.
Viewed here looking north.
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Poles Wood East
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jan 2007
Poles Wood East submitted by thecaptain on 4th Jan 2007. Poles Wood as seen from the lane between Upper and Lower Swell.
There was no obvious route up into the wood, and I didn't have much time, so I didn't go into the woods to search out any of the long barrows within.
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Lower Swell barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jan 2007
Lower Swell barrow submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jan 2007. The barrow can be seen under the bushes in its little enclosure at the far side of the cropped field - strangely well down the hillside.
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Hazleton North
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Hazleton North submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. Now completely destroyed after the excavations, all that there is to be seen of this ex longbarrow is a very slight raise in the middle of a ploughed field.
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Hazleton South
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Hazleton South submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. Hazleton South longbarrow is left clear in the field and is not currently ploughed up, although I would think it has been in the past. I would estimate the slight mound, maximum one metre in height, to be about 50 metres in length by 25 metres wide.
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Notgrove
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Notgrove submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. The completely hopeless and uninformative sign at the site of Notgrove longbarrow. This site is a disgrace to English Heritage and Gloucester Council.
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Cold Aston
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Cold Aston submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. Cold Aston longbarrow seen close up at the northwestern end.
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