Tidcombe Long Barrow

Nearest town:
Andover (14km SE)
OS reference:
SU292575
OS sheet:
174
Latitude:
51° 18' 55.11 N
Longitude:
1° 34' 51.52 W
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Images

Image of Tidcombe Long Barrow by GLADMAN

Despite the extensive longitudinal damage – not seen here – this long barrow remains an impressive monument... looking along the east face with some helpful chap highlighting relative scale.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Feb 6, 2011
Image of Tidcombe Long Barrow by GLADMAN

Into the sun...the mutilated, yet still upstanding long barrow from the northwest, above Tidcombe [centre right background]

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Sep 4, 2010
Image of Tidcombe Long Barrow by jimit

The view over the Vale of Pewsey.

Image credit: Jimit Sept05
jimit
jimit Sep 5, 2005
Image of Tidcombe Long Barrow by jimit

The remains of the sarsens at the entrance

Image credit: Jimit Sept05
jimit
jimit Sep 5, 2005

Articles

Tidcombe Long Barrow

tjj
tjj Aug 1, 2010

This was such a surprise; a friend in my walking group mentioned they had seen it from the road on the way Scotts Poor this morning where our walk started. The walk didn’t take in the longbarrow so the friend who had spotted it offered to stop later at the byway a mile along from Scotts Poor (SU285562 Exp 131). An astonishingly large longbarrow on the brow of a hill overlooking some stunning views. A very odd shape, sunken in the centre it gave the appearance of two banks; reading the previous fieldnote it appears to have been plundered in the past – a couple of sarsen stones are still visible at what must have been the entrance.

It had the lot, the views, the hawthorns and the sheep. A great end to a totally enjoyable walk.

Tidcombe Long Barrow

jimit
jimit Nov 15, 2004

It’s a pity that the local villagers trashed this barrow in 1750 when they completely removed the middle in a fruitless(?) search for grave goods. It sits on a fine spur overlooking the Vale of Pewsey and is surrounded by a multitude of linear banks and ditches and early field systems. From the link below it is not clear when the 10ft high Sarsens at the entrance were removed, they would have been a grand sight.

Access Close to road and field gate, rough pasture.

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