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Belas Knap
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 1986
Belas Knap submitted by Adam Stanford on 19th Jul 2006. Taken with Aerial-Cam, at aprox 10M above ground level on a telescopic mast with remote control Nikon D70s camera system. This image shows the tapering of the mound from front to back (left to right). The camera was pointing in an Easterly direction. Cheers AS.
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Log Text: A visit to Belas Knap following a visit to the fledgling Glos Warwicks Railway
Belas Knap
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2006
Belas Knap submitted by Adam Stanford on 19th Jul 2006. Taken with Aerial-Cam, at aprox 10M above ground level on a telescopic mast with remote control Nikon D70s camera system. This image shows the tapering of the mound from front to back (left to right). The camera was pointing in an Easterly direction. Cheers AS.
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Log Text: A visit to Belas Knap after a day with megalithic portal people starting at Rollright
Belas Knap
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 10th Aug 2021. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Belas Knap submitted by Adam Stanford on 19th Jul 2006. Taken with Aerial-Cam, at aprox 10M above ground level on a telescopic mast with remote control Nikon D70s camera system. This image shows the tapering of the mound from front to back (left to right). The camera was pointing in an Easterly direction. Cheers AS.
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Log Text: A long Cotswold Way loop walk from Winchcombe, up to Belas Knap then over to Cleeve Hill via Postlip. A pint at the golf club, then up to the trig point and back to Winchcombe down the Isbourne valley.
The Toots (King's Stanley)
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Toots (King's Stanley) submitted by AngieLake on 21st Oct 2015. Facing WSW on 22nd Sept with the glare of the setting sun at Equinox highlighting the dips and bumps on top of The Toots. The River Severn is glimpsed in the distance, top right. Views are spectacular up here!
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Log Text: Walking "The Selsey Circuit" of the Cotswold Way with San, and passed over the Toots. Snow on the hilltops!
Nympsfield
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Mar 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Nympsfield submitted by AngieLake on 11th Oct 2015. A magical double rainbow (you can't see the upper arc here) over Nympsfield longbarrow, viewed from the rear of the mound. 22nd Sept.
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Log Text: This Chambered long barrow with a pair of side chambers and an end chamber, is located in Coaley Peak picnic area, on the edge of the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire. Once covered by a mound 27m long by 18m wide and with a horned forecourt, it contained between 20 and 30 burials. These days it is an easy and pleasant place to visit, with plenty of parking, picnic areas etc nearby, and some splendid views from the edge of the Cotswold Hills over the Severn Valley below, and over to the Forest of Dean and the Welsh Hills.
Buckholt Wood
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 14th Mar 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Buckholt Wood submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 17th Jun 2011. Fairly easy to find - near entrance to overspill car park for Woodchester Mansion - if you miss the Barrow which is not that conspicuous then look for the Glider Winch at the W end of the Airfield
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Log Text: The remains of this badly damaged Long Barrow with possible Chambered Tomb can today be seen as a slight raise in the ground at the end of the Nympsfield Gliding Club – today to be seen just behind the winching equipment. This site has been badly damaged in the past by ploughing. I found nowhere obvious to park while driving north, and thought I’d come back later in the day, but didn’t. There seems to be a trackway nearby from where a better look could be had.
Offa's Dyke at Tidenham Chase
Date Added: 7th Apr 2022
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Offa's Dyke at Tidenham Chase submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Apr 2022. A walk up Offas Dyke from Chepstow to Brockweir, and not hammering down with rain this time, so I got a few snaps. The banks are not built as big as further north, but there is a lot of stone in the construction here, looking more like a wall in places.
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Log Text: A walk up Offas Dyke from Chepstow to Brockweir, and not hammering down with rain this time, so I got a few snaps. The banks are not built as big as further north, but there is a lot of stone in the construction here, looking more like a wall in places.
Southmead Barrow
Date Added: 2nd Jun 2022
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Southmead Barrow submitted by dooclay on 10th Feb 2022. The Tumulus from approx NE
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Log Text: Remarkably well preserved round barrow now a part of the recently created Badock's Wood nature reserve
Tormarton 1
Date Added: 28th Aug 2023
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Sep 2022
Tormarton 1 submitted by dooclay on 28th Aug 2022. unploughed (currently) area in which the barrow is located - from the road
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Log Text: Day out walking and stopped for a quick look here on the way home. The field has been harvested, leaving the long raised lump in the ground standing proud. No obviously easy way into the field, so I satisfied myself with a view from the road.
King Henry's Mound
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2006
King Henry's Mound submitted by thecaptain on 1st Jan 2006. King Henry's Mound is a much modified large mound in Richmond Park.
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Valence House
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2008
Valence House submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2008. The Dagenham Idol while on display at Colchester Castle Museum in 2008.
Found in the Thames mud when the Ford factory was built in the 1930's, and dated to 2250BC.
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London Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 24th Nov 2013
London Stone submitted by theCaptain on 24th Nov 2013. I struggled to find The London Stone at first, not helped by looking for it at No 110, instead of No 111, and asked several people of its whereabouts, but nobody knew... Then by looking where I was expecting to find it, and walking the street a couple of times, my Dad said "whats this, is this it?"
Have to say its not quite what I was expecting, and is very disappointing, and not only just about impossile to see from outside, covered off from inside now.
Still, its still there, and I...
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Beacon Hill (Burghclere)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Mar 2004
Beacon Hill (Burghclere) submitted by thecaptain on 7th Mar 2004. Hillfort at Beacon Hill, SU458573, Hampshire.
Kite flying on top of Beacon Hill. Its a wonderful place for kite flying for all ages. View looking north towards Newbury.
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Ibsley Common barrows
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2006
Ibsley Common barrows submitted by thecaptain on 6th May 2006. On the western edge of the New Forest plateau above the river Avon is this fine disc barrow with splendid views in all directions.
This is the view towards the northeast.
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Ladle Hill
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2007
Ladle Hill submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Jul 2007. Ladle Hill hillfort seen here looking in a westerly direction along the top of the ridge of Watership Down.
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Log Text: None
Danebury Ring
Date Added: 19th Jul 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Danebury Ring submitted by Jimit on 19th Feb 2004. Danebury Hill Fort - the main entrance defensive works.
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Andover Museum of the Iron Age
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Aug 2019
Andover Museum of the Iron Age submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Aug 2019. Lego model of an Iron Age hillfort in the entrance to the Andover Museum of the Iron Age.
Behind is part of the Fullerton Mosaic, which was found in the main room of a Romano-British villa in the nearby village of Fullerton. The centre piece to the mosaic is the god Mars in his role as protector of agriculture.
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Log Text: I particularly liked the Lego model of an Iron Age hillfort situated in front of the Roman Fullerton Mosaic, which was found in the main room of a Romano-British villa in the nearby village of Fullerton. The centre piece to the mosaic is the god Mars in his role as protector of agriculture.
The Butts (Godshill)
Date Added: 8th Feb 2022
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Feb 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
The Butts (Godshill) submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Feb 2022. The line of three can be seen beyond the pond
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Log Text: Walk with friends in the New Forest over heathland through an old bombing range, hunting down a few tumuli, The Butts being first, three in line nearby a pond.
Ashley Cross tumuli
Date Added: 8th Feb 2022
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Feb 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Ashley Cross tumuli submitted by JimChampion on 19th Mar 2005. March 2005. Looking north at the round barrow at SU20631431.
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Log Text: Walk with friends in the New Forest over heathland through an old bombing range, hunting down a few tumuli. This is a nicely formed round barrow just to the west of an old bombing range lookout building on the New Forest heathland at Ashley Cross. This area used to be the Ashley Walk bombing range during WW2 and is pockmarked with craters.
Ashley Walk mound
Date Added: 8th Feb 2022
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Feb 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Ashley Walk mound submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Feb 2022. A large mound marked as tumulus on my OS map, possibly the earthcovered remains of the "Submarine Pens" wartime bombing range targets.
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Log Text: Walk with friends in the New Forest over heathland through an old bombing range, hunting down a few tumuli. This large mound was marked as tumulus on the OS map, where we stopped to have lunch. This area used to be Ashley Walk bombing range during WW2 and is pockmarked with craters. I find out later that it is possible that this large mound is the earthcovered remains of the "Submarine Pens" targets.