Details of long barrow on Pastscape
(SP 46432474) Hoar Stone (NR) (Remains of) (1) ‘A long barrow with some broken stones at its east end: these broken stones are probably the remains of a burial chamber’. (2) Listed under chambered tombs and described as a long mound (at least 50 ft), E/W, with a heap of smashed stone at the east. A 19th century reference speaks of ‘two side-pieces and a lintel’, possibly either a simple terminal chamber or a blind entrance. (The name Hoar Stone cannot be confirmed). (3)
‘The Hoar Stone, formerly called Maiden’s Bower, about which there were superstitions, so that it was deliberately broken up. Mr Hall, owner of Barton Abbey, had the pieces collected into a heap’. (4)
At SP 46422474 there is a low, nearly circular mound some 11.0m N-S by 9.5m E-W and 0.5m high. Its centre consists of a mass of broken sandstone, which is presumably the remains of the Hoar Stone or burial chamber. A vague, unsurveyable ground swelling stretches away to the NW, and may represent the site of the lond mound mentioned by Daniel (2) and Powell (3). Mr Hall (4) is no longer at Barton Abbey, the site is known locally as Hoar Stone, and the only feature hereabouts with a name resembling ‘Maiden’s Bower’ is the wood centred at SP 461235 (a). Published survey (25’) revised. (5)