Folklore

Pole’s Wood South
Long Barrow

The antiquarian Reverend David Royce (a Victorian rector of Nether Swell) said the barrow had been “seen at times, by those gifted with second sight, swathed in unearthly flame”.

Blimey.

(’Gloucestershire Barrows’ – Grinsell and O’Neil – Proc Brist Glos Arch Soc 1960)