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Re: How many barrows?
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swallowhead wrote:
The official name of this site is "Two round barrows N of Blathwayt Arms". However, it appears that an old map shows 3 of them.

On the 1931 OS 1:2500 map https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/372531/168701/12/100730 it quite clearly shows two small barrows within close proximity, and a larger one to the south.

The 1971 1:2500 map shows the two small barrows to be slightly further apart.

The Historic England entry appears to treat thee two barrows as one, and also includes the large mound to the south https://historicengland.org.uk[...]ng/the-list/list-entry/1002471


Not sure of the answer but these barrows are always so overgrown that it is difficult to judge. But go further along this ridge for a couple of miles and you come to the Langridge Barrows - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/7856/langridge.html

fairly similar which were robbed/excavated in 1909,and Rhiannon mentions that stones were taken from them. So the same could have happened here.


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moss
Posted by moss
29th July 2017ce
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