dabberdave
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Bronze Age site found in Gloucestershire
Oct 31, 2019, 09:09
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Interesting discovery.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-50208092
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ironstone
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Re: Bronze Age site found in Gloucestershire
Oct 31, 2019, 10:24
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Looks a bit like Barbrook II.
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spencer
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Re: Bronze Age site found in Gloucestershire
Nov 01, 2019, 11:31
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Agreed.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Bronze Age site found in Gloucestershire
Nov 01, 2019, 17:49
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Ooh, that's seriously exciting. That will by far the nearest site of this kind to me, in an area where the BA is mostly limited to a handful of isolated standing stones and ploughed down round barrows.
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drewbhoy
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Re: Bronze Age site found in Gloucestershire
Nov 02, 2019, 17:36
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thesweetcheat wrote: Ooh, that's seriously exciting. That will by far the nearest site of this kind to me, in an area where the BA is mostly limited to a handful of isolated standing stones and ploughed down round barrows.
Look forward to seeing the pics sir.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Bronze Age site found in Gloucestershire
Nov 03, 2019, 11:14
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I know where it is now, after a lot of map trawling. Hopefully will get there over the winter months when the undergrowth is at its lowest.
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nigelswift
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Re: Bronze Age site found in Gloucestershire
Nov 03, 2019, 11:34
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Is it close to a public road? If so could you email me the location? Cheers
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Bronze Age site found in Gloucestershire
Nov 03, 2019, 16:23
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Sure - is your email the one in your profile?
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Bronze Age site found in Gloucestershire
Nov 19, 2019, 18:55
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Visited this on Saturday. It's really good, reminded me of a slightly bigger Stanton Moor North.
It has a very clear and complete bank of stone, a good metre across, with several orthostats at various points around the perimeter. The bank is heavily overlaid with leaf-litter and soil for most of its diameter but still very clear.
At one point there is a row of three or four stones placed end to end crossing the bank laterally, which could represent the flanking stones of an entrance, although it's not obviously the case.
There's no sign of anything inside the ring, other than one tree and a couple of sizable stumps that have obviously been felled.
It's very obvious so I'm surprised it hasn't been mapped and recorded previously.
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