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Lodge Park Long Barrow

thesweetcheat Aug 24, 2012 22:22:40

Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:

thesweetcheat wrote:

tiompan wrote:

You won't find these monuments described as ring barrows today .

Coflein lists a number, but to fair quite a lot of them are listed with a "?

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/advanced/?pclasssub=RING+BARROW&submit=Search&show=all&sort_typ=nmrsname&sort_ord=asc

Also the Coflein examples are not those mentioned by Grinsell which Bladup suggest he has seen described a ring barrows today .Interesting to see if the Coflein examples are like the Irish types .

Interestingly a search of Pastscape reveals a number of "Ring Barrows" in West Penwith, very close to where Bladup lives. More than in any other part of England. There's a lot of crossover with ring ditches and disc barrows though, it seems.

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/SearchResults.aspx?rational=a&type=RING%20BARROW&class1=None&period=None&county=None&district=None&parish=None&place=&recordsperpage=10&source=text&sort=2&rtype=&rnumber=&typeselect=c

Sanctuary Aug 24, 2012 22:30:26

Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:

tiompan wrote:

thesweetcheat wrote:

tiompan wrote:

You won't find these monuments described as ring barrows today .

Coflein lists a number, but to fair quite a lot of them are listed with a "?

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/advanced/?pclasssub=RING+BARROW&submit=Search&show=all&sort_typ=nmrsname&sort_ord=asc

Also the Coflein examples are not those mentioned by Grinsell which Bladup suggest he has seen described a ring barrows today .Interesting to see if the Coflein examples are like the Irish types .

The problem is TSC that most don't appear to have been heavily mounded or ditched and consequently just animal movements have flattened a great many over the years making it now difficult to distinquish between the two, plus the plough on occasions as well I suppose. 4,000 years is a long time for a not so prominent feature to be laid to waste!

tiompan Aug 24, 2012 22:41:46

Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:

tiompan wrote:

thesweetcheat wrote:

tiompan wrote:

You won't find these monuments described as ring barrows today .

Coflein lists a number, but to fair quite a lot of them are listed with a "?

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/advanced/?pclasssub=RING+BARROW&submit=Search&show=all&sort_typ=nmrsname&sort_ord=asc

Also the Coflein examples are not those mentioned by Grinsell which Bladup suggest he has seen described a ring barrows today .Interesting to see if the Coflein examples are like the Irish types .

The earlier ones look like what we now call disc barrows . Grinsell obviously changed the typology when the 1936 book was revised as none of his earlier "ring barrows " retained the name also he never described the Lodge Park mound as ring barrow at any time .