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<< Our Photo Pages >> Burnt Hill barrow - Long Barrow in England in Oxfordshire

Submitted by thecaptain on Tuesday, 04 April 2006  Page Views: 6086

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Burnt Hill barrow
Country: England County: Oxfordshire Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Chipping Norton  Nearest Village: chastleton
Map Ref: SP26602850
Latitude: 51.954357N  Longitude: 1.614343W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 4

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4clydesdale7 visited on 8th Apr 2012 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 4 Access: 4 This has now been declared (after excavation) as a mere collection of rugg/rugge stones gathered over many years of field clearance and NOT a Long Barrow - more detail to follow

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Burnt Hill barrow
Burnt Hill barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The Copse - Cornwell Circle on approach from the S (A436) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Possible remains of a Neolithic long barrow, now much ploughed out, which can be found in the field to the southwest of Burnt Hill, less than a kilometre northeast of Chastleton Barrow fort.

Some reasonable remains of the barrow are still to be found within the clump of trees in the field, along with some stones which were possibly once part of a chamber.

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Burnt Hill barrow
Burnt Hill barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The 'Suspect' mound (Vote or comment on this photo)

Burnt Hill barrow
Burnt Hill barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 : Definitely natural (Vote or comment on this photo)

Burnt Hill barrow
Burnt Hill barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 : Some of the Rugge Stones within the small copse (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SP2628 : Copse by the A436 by Philip Jeffrey
by Philip Jeffrey
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SP2628 : Another copse by the A436 by Philip Jeffrey
by Philip Jeffrey
©2021(licence)
SP2628 : Recently harvested field by Sarah Charlesworth
by Sarah Charlesworth
©2010(licence)
SP2628 : Greygoose Lane, Chastleton by John Brightley
by John Brightley
©2012(licence)
SP2628 : Greygoose Lane by Michael Dibb
by Michael Dibb
©2009(licence)

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Re: Burnt Hill barrow by Zooks777 on Friday, 13 August 2021
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Despite being ploughed out, the barrow does show on the Environment Agency lidar (grey icon next to that for CamRA)
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Re: Burnt Hill barrow by 4clydesdale7 on Wednesday, 11 April 2012
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The correct map reference is (to 8 figures) SP26602850
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Re: Burnt Hill barrow by 4clydesdale7 on Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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The English Heritage pastscape website [Oxfordshire: West Oxfordshire: Chastleton: Monument 332476] refers to this site as 'Cornwell Circle' citing that the famous OGS Crawford had initially in 1922 then later in his work 'The Long Barrows of the Cotswolds' 1925 described the site as a 'Barrow Circle' -

Crawfords notion that it was an ancient circle was never fully accepted - doubts were expressed so many times that eventually Don Benson and Peter Fasham undertook a thorough investigation of the site in 1972 reporting their findings in Oxoniensia (Vol 37) - this 'Circle' is site E in their report - their excavations revealed that there was no evidence to support the notion that the earthwork (the mound) was man made - they had no doubt that it was a natural geological feature - thus Crawford's theories were discarded -

Yes there are many large stones within the very small copse - they are believed to be 'rugge stones' (in local folklore 'Geese Stones') - large stones removed by ancient medieval and modern farmers as part of field clearance - [for more see my remarks appended to the Burnt Hill Dolmen page of this (Megalithic) website] -

The whole parish is a fascinating place to visit
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Re: Burnt Hill barrow by coldrum on Monday, 29 March 2010
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