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Foresters Oaks Round Barrow (Round Barrow(s)) — Images (click to view fullsize)

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Thornwell (Chambered Tomb) — Fieldnotes

There is also a nearby round barrow.

Text from:

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/pls/portal/coflein.w_details?inumlink=6063030

Located on a NW-facing slope in a recreational green area within a housing estate is a turf-covered, circular stony mound measuring 12m in diameter and 1m high on the NW, 0.3m on the SE. Excavations revealed the presence of a stone kerb, traces of which can occasionally be seen around the edge of the mound.

Foresters Oaks Round Barrow (Round Barrow(s)) — Fieldnotes

[5 Nov 2007]

Condition good and 17m in diameter. It's near an old trackway and spring.

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coflein.gov.uk INFO

Large roughly circular earth mound. Approx 20m in dia and 1.3m in height.

Overgrown, poor condition.

Brash line obscuring western edge. Scrub growth obscuring feature such that it is difficult to determine precise extent and nature.

More Info Here:
http://www.coflein.gov.uk/pls/portal/coflein.w_details?inumlink=6068797

Gray Hill (Stone Circle) — Images

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Uley Bury Camp (Hillfort) — Images

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Hetty Pegler's Tump (Long Barrow) — Images

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Uley Bury Camp (Hillfort) — Images

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Hetty Pegler's Tump (Long Barrow) — Images

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Llanvair-Discoed (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes

Standing stone or possibly a scratching post. Best way to access top of hill through Llanvair past a bungalow and you will find a gate on the left.

If you go around the field towards the left you will aslo see the remains of a rather nice castle

Castle pictures and standing stone here:
http://www.castlewales.com/llanvair.html

Llanvair-Discoed (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images

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Gaer Llwyd (Burial Chamber) — Images

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Thornwell (Chambered Tomb) — Images

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Great Barnets Wood (Hillfort) — Fieldnotes

This site has just been cleared. It is approx. 60m in diameter. Access is poor.

Great Barnets Wood (Hillfort) — Images

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Willis Hill (Enclosure) — Images

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Willis Hill (Enclosure) — Fieldnotes

Possible barrow ?

Kings Weston Hill (Hillfort) — Images

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Red Hill (Elberton) (Round Barrow(s)) — Images

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Red Hill (Elberton) (Round Barrow(s)) — Fieldnotes

POSSIBLE round barrow.

St Arilda - Oldbury-on-Severn (Christianised Site) — Fieldnotes

The tumulus on which the Church stands is of uncertain date and may have pre-Christian pagan associations. There is an Iron-age settlement in the village 0.5 mile to the north, and Roman coins have been found here in the churchyard. The chancel stands about central on the tumulus, with the tower alongside on the highest ground. Formerly many fine elms grew around the perimeter, these unfortunately all became victims of the Dutch elm desease.

More Here...

http://www.severnbeach.com/southglos/st_arilda_church.htm

[Source Church Flyer]

St Arilda - Oldbury-on-Severn (Christianised Site) — Images

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Titters Hill (Round Barrow(s)) — Images

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Gray Hill (Stone Circle) — Images

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News

Stunning Painting Discovered in Gorham's Secret Chamber


http://www.chronicle.gi/

Archaeologists working deep inside Gorham's Cave have discovered a rare prehistoric painting, that could be up to 13,000 years old, of a deer. To the untrained eye it looks like a series of random scrawls on the cave wall.

But with the help of the experts, the outline of an animal crowned with a distinctive set of antlers quickly becomes clearly discernible.
The discovery of the painting follows the previous find of cave art in St Michael's Cave and highlights the wealth of archaeological remains in Gibraltar.
Alongside the painting, the archaeologists working in Gorham's Cave have also made important Neanderthal finds during the past two weeks.
"The surprises seem to come one after another each year," said Professor Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum and co-director of the excavation at Gorham's Cave.
"What we have now in Gibraltar are eight caves where we know there has been Neanderthal occupation."
"We also have a number of caves with occupation by modern people, of which at least two have cave art, which is of great heritage value in global terms."
"This makes Gibraltar one of those unique places for the study of prehistory and for this rich heritage."
"Certainly in terms of Neanderthal occupation sites, for a peninsula this size to have eight is unique in the world."
"There is no other place like that," he concluded.
Of the recent discoveries at Gorham's Cave, the cave painting of the deer is perhaps the most significant.
From its style, the experts working in the cave can tell that it is an Upper Paleolithic painting from the Magdalenian period, making it approximately 12,000 to 13,000 years old.
"It is extremely unique," Professor Finlayson said.
"In the south of the Iberian peninsula it is probably the second one," he added, explaining that similar artwork is common only in the south of France and, to a lesser extent, northern Spain.
That could suggest a link between prehistoric communities there and those in this region, who perhaps were sheltering in southern Iberia during a glacial period.
"This is a really major find and there may well be more in there," he said.
Aside from these broader lines of enquiry stretching halfway across Europe, the paintings are helping experts build a clearer picture of what life was like in Gibraltar thousands of years ago.
"Both this find and the one in St Michael's Cave help to fill in details of the life of our hunter-gatherer ancestors who lived on the Rock," said Maria Dolores Simón, an archaeologist from the Fundación Cueva de Nerja who is closely involved in the excavations in Gibraltar.
The painting is just one of a series of important discoveries made by archaeologists working in Gorham's Cave as part of an excavation programme that has been running annually since 1991.
They have been working on two distinct levels of sediment deep inside the cave, a 'modern' one dating back no more than 20,000 years, and a Neanderthal one that dates back at least 30,000 years.
Within the 'modern', Upper Paleolithic level, one of the most interesting finds this year has been the discovery of a complete hearth – "a barbecue if you like", Professor Finlayson said – that prehistoric people were using to cook food as part of life inside the cave. The fireplace is believed to be anywhere between 16,000 and 20,000 years old.
But the researchers also found a very large hearth in the Neanderthal level. They are still waiting to have this find dated, but already it is being described as significant.
"We can show that not only were these modern people living and cooking inside the cave, but we have an incredibly large Neanderthal hearth," Professor Finlayson said.
From the clues in the cave, researchers are starting to draw initial conclusions.
The Neandearthals did not survive in this part of the world more recently than 30,000 years ago, but the oldest human remains date back to around 20,000 years ago.
"What this means is that, at least in this cave, Neanderthals and modern humans never met," Professor Finlayson said.
"Therefore in this cave we can very definitely say that the modern people, contrary to what the general belief is, did not cause the extinction of the Neanderthals."
"Now I'm not going to generalise this beyond that case, but the fact that we can question it in one cave questions the globality of that principle."
Tests are now being carried out on remains found in both hearths.
The results will give researchers an idea of the kind of plants and wood used in the fires, and by extension a better understanding of the flora during both periods.
Excavation work in the cave continues until September 22.

[Gibraltar Chronicle]
http://www.chronicle.gi/

Alveston Down (Round Barrow(s)) — Images

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