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Tunley Farm

Hillfort

Nearest Town:Radstock (4km SSE)
OS Ref (GB):   ST683591 / Sheet: 172
Latitude:51° 19' 46.42" N
Longitude:   2° 27' 18.14" W

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Three fined for dumping waste at Tunley hillfort


"A landowner, one of his tenants and a local trader were ordered to pay £15,065 in fines and costs for illegally dumping huge amounts of waste on land designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The case was brought by the Environment Agency... continues...
baza Posted by baza
22nd August 2007ce

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Tunley Cromlech destroyed. Identified by Skinner as a capstone with two supporting stones, but was already being broken up by 1812 for road material. Skinner says;
"there was a cromlech on the highest point to the east of Tunley Camp"
Jodie Lewis (Monuments Ritual and Regionality) Neolithic of north Somerset says, that it could either have been the remains of a Cotwold Severn barrow or a simple portal dolmen.
moss Posted by moss
23rd August 2007ce