I wasn’t that impressed when I read that with the help of four labourers and his personal servant, Reverend John Skinner dug eight of the ‘Priddy Nine Barrows’ in a week in September 1815. I guess he wasn’t the only one doing speed tombrobbing at the time. But you’d think a Reverend might have more respect for the burial mounds of the dead.
(spotted in ‘Excavations at Camerton’ by WJ Wedlake, 1958)