Folklore

Small Down
Barrow / Cairn Cemetery

There are traces of fourteen – or maybe even more – Bronze Age round barrows on top of Small Down Knoll. They're enclosed by the banks and ditches of a later hillfort. The builders didn't consider all those barrows to be in the way?

One of the barrows contains a golden coffin – but which one? How confusing.

(mentioned in Grinsell's 1976 'Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in Britain', originally from the Somerset Year Book for 1933., p107.)

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