Harwell Barrow (possible location)

  • SU493895
  • Disputed
Nearest town:
Abingdon (8km NNW)
OS reference:
SU493895
OS sheet:
174
Latitude:
51° 36' 5.96 N
Longitude:
1° 17' 17.15 W
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Harwell Barrow (possible location)

C
CARL May 10, 2011

Visited 29.4.11
I do like visiting these types of sites – still somehow managing to survive while all around is change and ‘progress’.
I only managed to locate one of the stones, which was outside Box Cottage near a bus stop.
The stone was lying prostrate on the pavement and measured approximately 4ft x 1ft x 1ft.
The full length of the stone has been shaped and has a sort of lip down the top side. There is a hole going right through the middle of the stone.
The stone certainly didn’t look prehistoric but it must be of some local importance for it to have been left where it is.
Quite unusual and well worth having a look when passing near the village.

Harwell Barrow (possible location)

wysefool
wysefool Feb 5, 2007

Possible barrow site in Harwell Village, Oxfordshire.

There are two road signs in the village in close proximity that seem to indicate a possible barrow site. There is obviously no barrow left anymore, and I suppose the site has been built on at some time in the past and is now covered in houses.

In the vicinity are some very large pieces of stone. One is in the corner of a building (4feet in height approx) and one is adjacent to the bus stop (again about 4feet long) and these appear to be rectangular in shape. There are also some large sarsen stones nearby.

I cannot find any reference to it, and I do not know from what period it may have come from. (long, round or saxon? et al).

(Listed under misc. earthwork)

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Harwell Barrow (possible location)
wysefool
wysefool Jun 4, 2007

from ‘the Harwell News’ number 143 April 2007

‘...we come to the few stones lying about in Harwell, such as the Bargain Stone, and my ignorance regarding their origin. They are all about 60cm thick, and are all at or near Middle Farm barn, (the barn on Grove Road) apart from a smaller one by Church Farm. If these stones are Sarsens it would seem likely they were brought here from the Downs by man. Did the people who built the barrow bring them? I have not heard any facts or even theories relating to their origin.‘

text by Martin Ricketts.

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