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Visited 25.6.11 The minor road leading south west out of the cheerfully named village of Slaughterford is very narrow and has to be driven with care. As the road rises you drive clear of the trees and at the top of the hill is a metal field gate on the left – park here. The field was in crop but I managed to carefully make my way towards the Barrow along existing wheel tracks. The Barrow is easy to spot being covered in trees, not far into the field. There appears to be 3 Barrows here – one large and two small. The large Barrow is about 2.5 metres high and perhaps 30 metres across. The smaller two (right next to large one) and about 1.5 metres high and 5 metres across. On the other hand this could be one very large Barrow which has been cut through the middle at some point so giving the impression of separate Barrows? If so, the original Barrow would have been about 50 metres across and would have quite a site in days gone by. Worth having a look when in the area. The tree covered Barrow (s) is easily seen from the field gate if you don't want to cross the field. |
Posted by CARL 27th June 2011ce |
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Colerne Park Barrows - 23.1.2004 These aren't quite fieldnotes because I didn't see them! I was visiting the village I was born in (Colerne) and decided to have a quick look for the barrows, trying to remember where they were on the map (which I didn't have with me!). I must have got so close though!! If heading from Colerne to Ford, turn into Thickwood Lane and go through the old bit of Thickwood. You'll come to a crossroads, go straight ahead along the narrow lane to Slaughterford. The barrows should be in the second field on your right. I later learnt from my mother that my father had worked at Hall Farm (the farm near the crossroads) as a young man and knew the area well. |
Posted by pure joy25th January 2004ce |
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| An earlier source of purejoy's folklore is 'Wiltshire: The topographical collections of John Aubrey', corrected and enlarged by J E Jackson (1862). He writes: "At the top of the wood at Colerne Park there is said to be a large hillock called 'The Dane's Tump' where tradition buries a Danish King." |
Posted by Rhiannon13th March 2006ce |
| 'The History of Colerne' (1975 - no author) says that local tradition has connected them with the Danes and the large mound was a one time known as "The Danes Tump", where a Danish King was supposed to have been buried. |
Posted by pure joy 3rd January 2004ce |
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I had read in 'The History of Colerne' (1975 - no author) of "three circular mounds, one large, with a surrounding ditch in Colerne Park". Colerne Park Nature Reserve is actually about 2 kms north east of Colerne village, and the barrows are near the lane that separates Colerne Park and Coombs Wood. These definitely are Bronze Age barrows and are Scheduled Ancient Monuments. The 'Magic' website confirms that they were confirmed in the schedule in 1981 as 'Wiltshire 835' and are now scheduled in the national monument register as '12316', and are described as "Three bowl barrows in Colerne park, 450m north of Keeper's Cottage". A one page report (PDF document) on the barrows is available via the 'Magic' website, at http://www.magic.gov.uk/rsm/12316.pdf |
Posted by pure joy 3rd January 2004ce Edited 3rd January 2004ce |
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