Fox Barrow

Nearest town:
Wantage (12km W)
OS reference:
SU507831
OS sheet:
174
Latitude:
51° 32' 38.35 N
Longitude:
1° 16' 7.71 W
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Images

Image of Fox Barrow (Round Barrow) by Chance

Fox Barrow looking north west towards towards Churn Knob and Churn Hill

Image credit: Chance - May 2008
Chance
Chance May 21, 2008
Image of Fox Barrow (Round Barrow) by Chance

Fox Barrow looking over the county hedge line north, towards Several Down and the Ridgeway

Image credit: Chance - May 2008
Chance
Chance May 21, 2008
Image of Fox Barrow (Round Barrow) by Chance

Fox Barrow looking south east towards the gallops and Compton Down

Image credit: Chance - May 2008
Chance
Chance May 21, 2008
Image of Fox Barrow (Round Barrow) by Chance

Fox Barrow looking along the hedge which marks the county line of Oxfordshire and Berkshire.

Image credit: Chance - May 2008
Chance
Chance May 21, 2008

Articles

Fox Barrow

wysefool
wysefool Nov 5, 2003

(26th September 2002)

This round barrow sits on the side of the hill here and has a track running past it which heads up to East Ilsley. It is well worn down, but still is a large clump of earth. It sits right on the modern county boundary which then appears to follow the line of Grims Ditch in some places. From this vantage point the other barrows in the Churn Knob area are clearly visible.

Why it is called fox barrow and is named, (as opposed to some of the others in the immediate area) I do not know. It was clearly a well known barrow as it was used for a county (and probably parish) boundary. This is quite common in the area.

You can just see Wittenham Clumps from the site as well.

Miscellaneous

Fox Barrow
Round Barrow(s)
Chance
Chance Mar 9, 2012

Details of barrow on Pastscape

Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as an earthwork and mapped from aerial photographs.

[SU 5071 8308] Fox Barrow [G.T.] (1)
Fox Barrow is a bowl barrow mentioned in an Anglo Saxon charter, and situated at the junction of the Blewbury, Compton and East Ilsley parish boundaries. The mound is thirty paces in diameter, seven feet high and surrounded by a ditch. Scheduled. (2-3) ‘Fox Barrow’ has been spared by ploughing and there is now no trace of a ditch. Published survey (25”) revised. (4)
The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. (5)

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SOURCE TEXT
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( 1) General reference O.S. 6” (Prov.) 1960
( 2) General reference Berks A.J. 40, 1936, 46. (L.V. Grinsell)
( 3) General reference A M S Eng and Wales 1961, 19. (Mow).
( 4) Field Investigators Comments F1 JP 23-APR-64
( 5) Vertical aerial photograph reference number NMR OS/6431 208 17-MAY-1964

Miscellaneous

Fox Barrow
Round Barrow(s)
wysefool
wysefool Nov 5, 2003

From: The Berkshire Archaeological Journal Vol 42 Part 2, Berkshire Barrows by L V Grinsell (1938)

Foxes Beorge (Fox Barrow)
Blewbury Charter;
There is no doubt this is a barrow, and it is the barrow still called Fox Barrow adjoining Grims Ditch at the meeting point of the parishes of Compton, Blewbury, and East Ilsley.

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