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Notgrove

Long Barrow

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Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum


A crackly (and presumably well-travelled) shale bead found by Witts in the 1881 excavation.

Also, a leaf shaped arrowhead
http://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/collections/img.asp?Url=1/1978-703.jpg

a sherd of late Neolithic pottery with tyre track pattern
http://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/collections/img.asp?Url=1/1978-697-1.jpg

and a 1913 drawing of the barrow by Edward Burrow, which makes it look noble and intact with its stones, not the disaster described by Jane.
http://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/collections/img.asp?Url=1/1923-4-15.jpg
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
30th June 2006ce
Edited 2nd September 2009ce

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