Pegler’s Knob, Donnington

Round Barrow(s)
SP167276

Nearest town:

Chipping Norton (14km E)

OS reference:

SP167276

OS sheet:

163

Latitude:

51° 56' 46.16 N

Longitude:

1° 45' 25.22 W

Added to TMA by

thesweetcheat

Images (4)
Fieldnotes (1)
Miscellaneous (2)

Images

Image of Pegler’s Knob, Donnington (Round Barrow(s)) by thesweetcheat

From the north across the river.

Image credit: A. Brookes (1.5.2021)

thesweetcheat Jan 29, 2022

The barrow with trees is centre of image. Seen from the northeast across the River Dikler.

Image credit: A. Brookes (1.5.2021)

thesweetcheat Jan 29, 2022

Pegler’s Knob in its landscape, the Dikler Valley. The barrow is on the far right of the picture.

Image credit: A. Brookes (6.3.2009)

thesweetcheat Mar 8, 2009

Pegler’s Knob (West) round barrow.

Image credit: A. Brookes (6.3.2009)

thesweetcheat Mar 8, 2009

Articles

Pegler’s Knob, Donnington

Round Barrow(s)

thesweetcheat Mar 8, 2009

Large, tree covered round barrow, seen from the road when walking from Condicote Henge to Stow on the Wold. The barrow is situated on the south side of the picturesque Dikler valley, between the Trout Farm and Donnington Brewery. There are supposed to be two barrows here, but I could only make out one from the road.

Pegler’s Knob, Donnington

Round Barrow(s)

Chance Aug 21, 2012

Details of Barrows on Pastscape

Two bowl barrows just below the crest of a north east facing hillside in the Cotswolds. The barrows abut one another and lie in a north west-south east orientation. The larger barrow, that on the north west, has a mound which measures 22 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres high. The smaller barrow is 11 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high. Around is mound is a quarry ditch which survive as buried features 3 metres and 1.5 metres wide respectively. The ditches appear to be absent where the mounds abut. Scheduled.

(SP 16722765) Tumulus (NR). (1)
Twin round barrows, known as Pegler’s Knob (3), are identified with Twisebeorge in a Saxon charter of AD 779.
SP 16722766. 20 paces diameter, 3 feet high and planted with trees.
SP 16752766. 10 paces diameter and 6 inches high in 1958. (2-3)
The better preserved of these two barrows and that marked on the OS map is known locally as Pegler’s Knob. (4)
Two round barrows at SP 16732765 and SP 16752765; respectively 16.0m in diameter by 1.0m high (tree covered) and 7.0m by 0.2m
(under pasture).Published 1:2500 survey revised. The name ‘Peglar’s Knob’ is known locally but is infrequently used. (5)
Scheduled under ‘Burial Mounds and Megalithic Monuments’ as Peglers Knob. (6)

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SOURCE TEXT
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( 1) Annotated Record Map 6” 1955
( 2a) General reference Cartularium Saxonicum 1885-99 229 (W de G Birch)
( 2b) General reference Codex Diplomaticus 1839-48 136 (J M Kemble)
( 2) Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 79 (1960) Page(s)112
( 3) by G B Witts 1883 Archaeological handbook of the county of Gloucester, being an explanatory description of the archaeological map of Gloucestershire Page(s)102
( 4) General reference Early Charter of W Midlands 1961 75 No 18 (H P R Finberg)
( 5) Field Investigators Comments 30/04/1974
( 6) General reference DOE Ancient Monuments Inspectorate. 1977. List of Ancient Monuments in England, 35
( 7) Scheduled Monument Notification 24/09/1997

Pegler’s Knob, Donnington

Round Barrow(s)

thesweetcheat Mar 8, 2009

Listed in “Gloucestershire Barrows” – H. O’Neil and LV Grinsell (1960 Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Arc. Soc.). They list two round barrows, the west one 20 paces in diameter and tree covered, the east 10 paces in diameter. The eastern barrow was only 6 inches high when they visited in 1955 and 1958 and I couldn’t see it from across the valley.