Very poor attempt to photograph the barrow over the fence. The barrow runs along the hedge and can been vaguely seen as a slight rise running from the bottom left of the picture to the middle right, where the hedge obscures it.
Horses not pictured.
Not sure you were in the right field Sweetcheat, it’s obvious when you find it. Still quite tall, runs parallel to the road with an obvious forecourt. It’s in a great spot, unusually on the side of the hill, in a sort of natural amphitheatre, with great views across the valley towards Frampton Mansell. A savage spot, as holy and enchanted as ere beneath a waning moon was haunted by woman wailing for her daemon lover....
Disappointing one really. Visited 12.4.2009 from The Twizzle Stone long barrow. I was running late for getting back to Stroud to catch the last bus, so didn’t have chance to linger. The field was patrolled by over-inquisitive horses who took my attempts to peer over the gate as an opportunity to get a bit too nosey.
This is a good-sized barrow (Grinsell recorded the length as 280 feet), but it has been ploughed down to the point of non-existence, rather like Honeycombe Farm long barrow a couple of miles to the north. All that I could see was a slight rise in the contour of the field (although it might have been easier to see if I could have got past the horses and into the field itself!).
Certainly not worth a special trip though.
Excavated between 1865 and 1875, contained human bones of two adults and a child, as well as bones of ox and sheep, burnt stones, a quartz pebble and undecorated potsherds.
[Info from “Gloucestershire Barrows” – H. O’Neill and L.V. Grinsell (1960) Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society.]
