Savernake

Also known as:
Big Belly Oak and New Road Bottom
Nearest town:
Marlborough (4km WNW)
OS reference:
SU21446591
OS sheet:
174
Latitude:
51° 23' 28.61 N
Longitude:
1° 41' 30.57 W
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Images

Image of Savernake (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by thesweetcheat

Savernake 2, the northern of the New Road Bottom barrows.

Image credit: A. Brookes (22.4.2019)
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thesweetcheat Sep 1, 2019
Image of Savernake (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by thesweetcheat

Savernake 3, the southern of the two New Road Bottom barrows.

Image credit: A. Brookes (22.4.2019)
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thesweetcheat Sep 1, 2019
Image of Savernake (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by thesweetcheat

New Road Bottom barrows from the southeast, Savernake 3 in the foreground, Savernake 2 behind.

Image credit: A. Brookes (22.4.2019)
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thesweetcheat Sep 1, 2019
Image of Savernake (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by thesweetcheat

A bit young for TMA, but at over 1,000 years old the Big Belly Oak is a venerable tree, standing close to Savernake 4 round barrow.

Image credit: A. Brookes (22.4.2019)
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thesweetcheat Sep 1, 2019
Image of Savernake (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by thesweetcheat

Savernake 4. The barrow is oddly half grass-covered and half bracken. The bracken was thankfully dead when we visited in April.

Image credit: A. Brookes (22.4.2019)
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Articles

Miscellaneous

Savernake
Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
Chance
Chance Jul 25, 2015

Details of Savernake 2 round barrow on Pastscape

SU 21556624 Tumulus (NR). (1)
One of two Bronze Age bowl barrows surviving as earthworks (centred at SU 21556625) was mapped and interpreted from a combination of lidar derived imagery and aerial photographs as part of the Savernake Forest NMP project. Both barrows were previously part of a single record (SU26NW 2) which now refers only to Barrow ‘B’ . Iron Age sherds found at the time of investigating the barrow on the ground have also been separately recorded as record SU26NW 105. On both the aerial photographs and lidar derived imagery barrow ‘A’ was seen as a quite indistinct low mound with no obvious ditch. This survey does not add any significant information to what was recorded by the previous authorities who visited the site on the ground. (2)
Savernake 2 ; bowl barrows, ‘A’ 15 paces in diameter x 2ft high. Reported by J W Brooke (a) in 1889, no interment found; many sherds superficially (some found recently by O Meyrick are Iron Age ‘C’). One sherd, classified ‘LBA or IA’ from ‘Barrow 2’, South Savernake, is in the Ashmolean Passmore Collection: Acc 1955.172. (3-4)
A bowl barrow lying on a woodland valley floor in an area of clay with flints. Barrow ‘A’ measures 15.0m in diameter by 0.7m high with a later mutilation on the east side. No further finds made. Published survey (25”) revised on FSG/PFD. (5)

Miscellaneous

Savernake
Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
Chance
Chance Jul 25, 2015

Details of New Road Track round barrow on Pastscape

(’A’: SU 21556624 and ‘B’: SU 21556623) Tumuli (NR). (1)
Savernake 3; bowl barrow, ‘B’ 14 paces in diameter x 2 1/2ft high. Reported by J W Brooke (a) in 1889, no interment found; many sherds superficially (some found recently by O Meyrick are Iron Age ‘C’). One sherd, classified ‘LBA or IA’ from ‘Barrow 2’, South Savernake, is in the Ashmolean Passmore Collection: Acc 1955.172. (2-3)
A bowl barrow lying on a woodland valley floor in an area of clay with flints. ‘B’ measures 14.0m in diameter by 1.0m high. No further finds made. Published survey (25”) revised on FSG/PFD. (4)
The Bronze Age bowl barrow surviving as an earthwork (centred at ‘B’ SU 21556623) described by the previous authorities was mapped and interpreted from a combination of lidar derived imagery and aerial photographs as part of the Savernake Forest NMP project. Barrow ‘A’ has now been recorded separately as SU26NW 104. The Iron Age sherds have also been separately recorded as record SU26NW 105. On both the aerial photographs and lidar derived imagery barrow ‘B’ was seen as a quite indistinct low mound with no obvious ditch. This survey does not add any significant information to what was recorded by the previous authorities who visited the site on the ground. (5)

Miscellaneous

Savernake
Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
Chance
Chance Jul 25, 2015

Details of Big Belly Oak round barrow on Pastscape

(SU 21446591) Tumulus (NR). (1) Savernake 4; ditched bowl barrow, 20 paces in diameter by 3 1/2 ft high. (2)
A ditched bowl barrow lying on an eastern slope under mature woodland. It measures 36.0m in overall diameter by 1.2m high with a ditch 0.4m deep. Published survey (25”) revised on FSG/PFD. (3)
The Bronze Age ditched bowl barrow described by the previous authorities was mapped and interpreted from lidar derived imagery as part of the Savernake Forest NMP project. The feature appeared as a mound c25m across surrounded by a ditch c4.5m wide and was partially truncated on the south-west edge by a later ditch, possibly a section of trackway recorded separately as part of record SU26NW 227. (4)

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