Worgan’s Wood

Also known as:
Chase Farm
Nearest town:
Chepstow (5km SSW)
OS reference:
ST54389873
OS sheet:
162
Latitude:
51° 41' 5.85 N
Longitude:
2° 39' 35.89 W
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Image of Worgan’s Wood (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The cairn (centre, obscured) may not be the most impressive, but it sure is pretty in these woods.

Image credit: A. Brookes (18.4.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 30, 2014
Image of Worgan’s Wood (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The cairn is very overgrown and cut branches have been added to the pile.

Image credit: A. Brookes (18.4.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 30, 2014

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Worgan’s Wood
Cairn(s)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 19, 2012

EH Scheduling description:

The monument includes a stone cairn situated just below the crest of a south facing slope in the Forest of Dean. The cairn has a stone mound which measures 6m in diameter and is about 0.5m high. Two large stone slabs, about 1m long lie parallel to each other about 0.4m apart on the centre of the mound. Around these are scattered a number of large limestone slabs, forming a roughly circular cairn. It is possible that the cairn was disturbed during the course of unrecorded excavation in the past.

Pastscape has the following about accessibility:

This barrow, which is shown on a map by G Ormerod, was searched for unsuccessfully by Dr Scott Garrett and by L V Grinsell, its site being occupied by a dense patch of brambles.

A roughly circular heap of stones at ST 5437 9874 is some 5.0m in diameter and 0.4m high. It appears to be the remains of a cairn.

Condition poor and very overgrown.

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