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Thornborough Mounds (Bucks) Image © glennnancy Nearest Town: Buckingham (4km W) OS Ref (GB):     SP732332 / Sheets: 152, 165 Latitude: 51° 59' 30.96" N Longitude:     0° 56' 1.7" W Added by RiotGibbon Images (4) Fieldnotes (6) 0 discussions Start a topic Show  |  Hide Web searches for Thornborough Mounds (Bucks) Flash Earth Flickr Google Google Images MAGIC The Megalithic Portal Multimap 1:25000 Stone Pages Streetmap.co.uk Wikipedia

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Interesting place, the mounds are Romano-British but the whole site has a much older feel to it. The notice board says that five roads used to meet at the crossing and the Romans built a temple on the riverbank. I suspect that all this activity took place on an exisiting site. Anyway it was chucking down with rain today and the Mounds look a lot nicer when the suns out so I will come back and explore further in the Sping. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by north bucks 20th March 2010ce

We feel privileged it was a beautiful sunrise we imagined the goings on of the folks who came here Eons past. Today the only folks here to see the dawn are myself and Nancy and about 50 sheep. the dawn chorus was loud as it has been for a million years ,no amplifiers needed . Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by glennnancy 21st June 2003ce Edited 21st June 2003ce

Making the most of a sunny afternoon with not much to do, I hopped on my motorbike and left the siege of Baghdad behind for a few hours. I noticed on the sign that the circular walk passes by some iron age eartworks - didn't get far enough round to to see them. But I did notice earthworks very similar to ones I noted in an earlier post (visible from one of the mounds), in two other places along the walk. They appear to be rows of ditches, but I have no idea if they have a any relevance at all. Never the less a fantastic site and well worth the visit Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by MichaelK 26th March 2003ce

Thornborough Mounds Visible from the road these impressive mounds Look like a pair of breasts, The local name for the nearby river is The Twins The only problem with that is that the river is That a river one river. So does the name twins originate from these Mounds? Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by glennnancy 3rd November 2002ce

Found the mounds easily, they are clearly visable from the road and there is a handy car park next to the medieval bridge. The mounds are both in good condition, but I was a little disapointed to see tyre tracks running acoss one of them. Looking down from the top, there is evidence of another (presumably) long gone structure visable in the ground. Well worth a visit Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by MichaelK 4th February 2002ce