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Fox Barrow Round Barrow(s) Image © Chance - May 2008 Nearest Town: Wantage (12km WNW) OS Ref (GB):     SU507831 / Sheet: 174 Latitude: 51° 32' 38.35" N Longitude:     1° 16' 7.71" W Added by wysefool Images (6) Fieldnotes (1) Miscellaneous (2) 0 discussions Start a topic Show  |  Hide Web searches for Fox Barrow Flickr Google Google Images MAGIC The Megalithic Portal Bing Stone Pages Streetmap.co.uk Wikipedia

- Sites within 20 km - - Blewbury Downs Tumuli (0.92km NE) (8 posts) Curn Barrow (1.36km ENE) (1 post) Churn Knob (2.19km NE) (12 posts) Lowbury Hill Camp (3.41km E) (6 posts) Hagbourne Hill (3.47km NW) (6 posts) Horse and Jockey Barrows (Thorning Down) (4.33km WNW) (1 post) Blewburton Hill (4.91km NE) (15 posts) Grim's Ditch (5.31km W) (8 posts) Perborough Castle (5.35km SSE) (15 posts) Scutchamer Knob (5.43km W) (19 posts) Beedon Barrow (6.01km SW) (4 posts) Midsummer Wood Barrow (7.72km W) (1 post) Goldbury Hill (7.73km WNW) (3 posts) Cholsey Hill (8.17km ENE) (0 posts) Lord Wantage Monument Barrow (8.37km W) (4 posts) Yew Down Barrow (8.74km W) (1 post) Goddards Barn Barrow (9.36km W) (6 posts) Pewitt Farm Barrow (9.82km W) (9 posts) Round Hill Mound (10.08km W) (3 posts) Rowbury Farm Barrow (10.09km SW) (2 posts) Grimsbury Castle (10.8km SSE) (24 posts) Brightwell Barrow (11.08km NE) (14 posts) Woolley Downs Barrows (11.19km WSW) (4 posts) Wittenham Clumps and Castle Hill (11.3km NE) (25 posts) Bussock Camp (11.41km SSW) (6 posts) Drayton Cursus (11.7km NNW) (3 posts) Segsbury Camp (12.23km W) (30 posts) Borough Hill (12.44km SW) (3 posts) Dyke Hills (12.47km NE) (14 posts) Drayton (12.6km NNW) (1 post) Ramsbury Corner (13.61km SSE) (4 posts) Dorchester Neolithic Complex (13.87km NNE) (5 posts) Dorchester Cursus (14.03km NNE) (2 posts) Bozedown (14.38km E) (7 posts) The Devil's Churchyard (14.48km ENE) (2 posts) East Garston Ditch (14.91km WSW) (14 posts) Devil's Punchbowl (15.18km W) (7 posts) Abingdon Causewayed enclosure (15.19km N) (2 posts) Barrow Hills, Radley (15.32km N) (7 posts) Mount Farm (15.69km NNE) (1 post) Hackpen Hill (Oxfordshire) (15.7km W) (11 posts) Pigtrough Bottom (top of) (16.48km W) (7 posts) Sparsholt Down (edge of) (16.79km W) (3 posts) Drayton St Leonard (16.84km NE) (3 posts) Moss Hill (17.08km W) (1 post) Wyfold Castle (17.67km E) (3 posts) Lambourn Sevenbarrows (17.84km WSW) (48 posts) Sparsholt Down (18.16km W) (1 post) Lambourn Long Barrow (18.34km W) (23 posts) Kingston Lisle Tumulus (18.58km W) (4 posts) Blowing Stone (18.65km W) (36 posts) Cherbury Camp (18.7km WNW) (10 posts) Swyncombe Downs (18.73km ENE) (0 posts) Hangman's Stone (18.73km WSW) (5 posts) Wash Common Barrow Cemetery (19.03km SSW) (8 posts) Greater Leys (19.4km NNE) (6 posts) Rams Hill (19.4km W) (11 posts) - Facilities within 20 km - - Barley Mow (Pub: 3.5 km NE) Manor Farm (Bed & Breakfast: 14.9 km W) The Hatchet (Pub: 15.2 km W) Blowing Stone Inn (Pub: 18.6 km W)

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(26th September 2002) This round barrow sits on the side of the hill here and has a track running past it which heads up to East Ilsley. It is well worn down, but still is a large clump of earth. It sits right on the modern county boundary which then appears to follow the line of Grims Ditch in some places. From this vantage point the other barrows in the Churn Knob area are clearly visible. Why it is called fox barrow and is named, (as opposed to some of the others in the immediate area) I do not know. It was clearly a well known barrow as it was used for a county (and probably parish) boundary. This is quite common in the area. You can just see Wittenham Clumps from the site as well. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by wysefool 5th November 2003ce Edited 27th May 2005ce

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Details of barrow on Pastscape Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as an earthwork and mapped from aerial photographs. [SU 5071 8308] Fox Barrow [G.T.] (1) Fox Barrow is a bowl barrow mentioned in an Anglo Saxon charter, and situated at the junction of the Blewbury, Compton and East Ilsley parish boundaries. The mound is thirty paces in diameter, seven feet high and surrounded by a ditch. Scheduled. (2-3) 'Fox Barrow' has been spared by ploughing and there is now no trace of a ditch. Published survey (25") revised. (4) The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. (5) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE TEXT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ( 1) General reference O.S. 6" (Prov.) 1960 ( 2) General reference Berks A.J. 40, 1936, 46. (L.V. Grinsell) ( 3) General reference A M S Eng and Wales 1961, 19. (Mow). ( 4) Field Investigators Comments F1 JP 23-APR-64 ( 5) Vertical aerial photograph reference number NMR OS/6431 208 17-MAY-1964 Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Chance 9th March 2012ce

From: The Berkshire Archaeological Journal Vol 42 Part 2, Berkshire Barrows by L V Grinsell (1938) Foxes Beorge (Fox Barrow) Blewbury Charter; There is no doubt this is a barrow, and it is the barrow still called Fox Barrow adjoining Grims Ditch at the meeting point of the parishes of Compton, Blewbury, and East Ilsley. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by wysefool 5th November 2003ce Edited 27th May 2005ce