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.