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Visited 17.7.10. Another site I 'visited' today where I couldn't see a thing due to tall crops in the field. However, I did previously see a good reconstruction of the site in the Corinium Museum in Cirencester - excellent place to visit – highly recommended. |
Posted by CARL 20th July 2010ce |
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Marked on the OS map, we spotted this as we were passing. Sadly, there's not much to see here now at all. There's a slight mound above the level of the field (6 or so inches), but unless you were specifically looking you'd never know it. A piece of antler was found during the 1979-82 excavation of the North Barrow. (Added to save other people time and bother looking...) This post appears as part of the weblog entry Oxon, Glocs and Jane's...
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Posted by ocifant10th May 2003ce Edited 11th May 2003ce |
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The eminent Leslie Valentine Grinsell spoke to a local farmer in Puesdown Inn in 1959. He told him that the older farmers in the area would say that when the plough went over one of these longbarrows, the ground sounded hollow. The south barrow used to have 2 upright stones at its SE end, but these were gone by the 1920s. Got in the way of the plough probably. Oh well. But they kind of indicate the 'megalithic' nature of the barrow and hence that it might well have sounded hollow, maybe having a chamber inside. (Trans Brist Gloc Arch Soc 1960 - Gloucestershire Barrows) |
Posted by Rhiannon4th April 2005ce |
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Ocifant may not have been very impressed with the long barrows at Hazleton, but did he realise they feature in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'? Surely that would have changed his mind. Well, perhaps not. In the film Harrison Ford gives a lecture to his archaeology class about 'Turkdean barrow near Hazleton'. He says "This site demonstrates one of the great dangers of archaeology.. not of life and limb although that does sometimes take place.. No, I'm talking about folklore. In this case a local tradition held that there was a golden coffin buried at the site... this accounts for the holes dug all over the barrow..." I've no idea if this common folklore motif really is attached to this barrow (a golden coffin is supposed to be at Windmill Tump, near a (different) Hazleton Manor). Lots of barrows have the folklore that they contain a golden object (though it's very rare that any actually do) so it's not surprising the film makers should mention this theme - all three films are about myth and archaeology are they not? Perhaps the film makers chose Hazleton because the north barrow there was very comprehensively excavated - I suppose it must be a well known example of a Cotswold-Severn style barrow amongst archaeologists. The films all have some loose! basis in 'real' legendary subjects. But I don't think it was excavated until the 1980s! so Dr Jones in his 1930s university wouldn't have heard of it. Perhaps you could visit the Corinium Museum in Cirencester, where they have reconstructed the chambers, if you want to know what was found. http://www.british-publishing.com/Pages/CirencesterOG/TheCoMuseum.htm Personally I'm quite frightened that my current interest might be simply traced subconsciously to a childhood obsession with a film. |
Posted by Rhiannon 2nd September 2004ce Edited 25th August 2005ce |
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British ArchaeologyAlan Saville describes his excavation of a flint knapper's skeleton in this article in the snappily titled 'Favourite Finds' series. |
Posted by Rhiannon 16th December 2004ce |
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