Bradup is gone (?)

Bradup 1

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Kammer Oct 20, 2003 12:49:42

Way back I started a thread entitled "This really pissed me off..." about a burial chamber in Pembrokeshire.

The thread got subverted (in a constructive sort of way) into a discussion about the Bradup Circle. It looks like the remains of this site have been moved by a farmer, effectively destroying it for good.

I thought it worth flagging this up in a slightly more prominent place (at the moment it's tucked away on the other thread). Perhaps someone who knows more about it could chip in.

Kammer

Kozmik_Ken Oct 20, 2003 15:09:33

Replying to Kammer

Just to recap - it looks like the farmer has hoyed the stones up, cleared the land of vegetation and dumped the stones to the side.

I'm probably gonna pop back to Yorkshire for a couple of days soon, and did intend to have a look. I was never very sure that I'd found it in the first place, so may not be able to confirm anyway. Paul Bennett reckons it's gone and he'd probably know better than anyone... so there may not be much point. Have lots of other sites I want to check out... including a suspected stone avenue near the grubstones.

Chris Collyer Oct 20, 2003 19:21:59

Replying to Kammer

Good idea Kammer, but why didn't you start this one as a new topic from the Bradup page so that the site and the discussion stayed linked together for future reference? (Apologies if that sounds picky!)
I nearly asked Holy a while back if there was any way of breaking that thread off and tagging it to the Bradup page topic link. Just to try and keep it all together the thread starts here -

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=10484&message=137227

-Chris

Kozmik_Ken Oct 21, 2003 13:12:08

Replying to Kammer

"I still think that if he doesn't want them then he might be happy if somebody else was to come and move them off of his land. We've got part of the plan of what the circle looked like - I just wish I had a garden ;-)"

It may be worthwhile checking the dumped stones to see if there are any cup n' ring marks on there. If so, perhaps it'd be a good idea to alert Ilkley Museum? I'll try to get over there when I'm back on the moor soon.

Maybe a good use for the stones would be to brick the farmer's door up before he ruins anything else! Grrrrrr!!!

David Raven Jul 4, 2004 11:57:44

Replying to Kammer

It's all a bit confusing!

What I think may have happened is that the O.S. map is wrong. The circle shown isn't there. If you look at an aerial photo the field to the east of the farm shows what could be traces of an enbanked circle. When British Gas layed their pipeline in 1971, they had a copy of the O.S. map, and had a 'corridor' to work within that was about 100 yards north of the site shown on the map. If the map's wrong, then the place that should've been protected wasn't! And the pipeline tore it's way through the original, unmarked site.

So maybe the farmer's not guilty?

Just an idea...