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Details of Barrow on Pastscape A possible barrow, called 'Coin Barrow' (or perhaps 'Hidden Barrow') is mentioned in a Saxon charter, dated c.955 A.D. relating to Compton Beauchamp. The barrow lay north of the Ridgeway and east of Wayland's Smithy [SU 28 NE 4], probably due north of Hardwell Barn. It may have lain somewhere along the line of the zig-zag footpath which is the line of the Compton Beauchamp parish boundary (1) Grundy suggests it is a barrow in which coins had been found, and that it must have been "on the summit of the downs somewhere south of Hardwell Castle" (2) [SU 28138578; SU 28308593]? Barrow Circles (3). (1-3) The zig-zag footpath, SU 286 859, no longer forms part of the Compton Beauchamp parish boundary. There is no trace of a barrow on the ground or an R.A.F. air photographs anywhere in its vicinity. The site of the western ? barrow circle lies in a new plantation and the other is under plough, but neither can be seen on the ground. (4) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE TEXT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ( 1) General reference Berks A.J., 29, 1925, 89. (G.B. Grundy) ( 2) General reference Berks A.J., 42, 1938, 109. (L.V. Grinsell) ( 3) General reference R.A.F., A.Ps.106G/UK/1561/3143-4 ( 4) Field Investigators Comments F1 GHP 07-FEB-64

Posted by Chance 21st August 2012ce

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