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Image of Bushy Barrow (Round Barrow) by Chance

Tumulus as marked on 1900 O.S. 25” map but not visible to O.G.S. Crawford in 1932 as listed on Ordnance Survey Record Card 001.

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Bushy Barrow
Round Barrow(s)

Details of Barrow on Pastscape

(ST 87047379). Tumulus. (NR). (1) Tumulus. (NR). (Site of.) (NAT.)
Adjoining copse called Bushy Barrow. (2)
A tumulus was not visible to Crawford in 1932; ‘only a flattish platform as for a house’, at the site marked. (3)
There were irregularities in the next field to the south. Passmore could find nothing in 1952.(4) Grinsell lists it as Bushy Barrow, under Biddestone, as a bowl barrow, 8 paces in diameter and 6 inches high; but gives it, in error, the N.G.R. of the castle mound in Corsham (ST 87 SE 4). (3-5)
There are now no remains of this barrow. Its site, just off the crest of a hill, is represented by a level area which suggests that the mound was deliberately removed. Hedging ditches cut into the fringes of the mound shown on the OS 25‘
(pre 1932). No significant features were noted in fields to the south. (4)
Published detail amended on OS 25’ for AO records. (6)

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SOURCE TEXT
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( 1) General reference O.S. 25”.
( 2) General reference O.S. 6”.1955.
( 3) General reference Rec. 6” (O.G.S.Crawford.) (4.2.32.)
( 4) General reference Letter. (A.D.Passmore.) (30.12.52)
( 5) General reference V.C.H. Wilts., 1.1957.157. (L.V.Grinsell.)
( 6) Field Investigators Comments F1 MJF 27-APR-76

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Bushy Barrow
Round Barrow(s)

I have listed this site on the TMA as it needs to be explored.
Although a Round Barrow is clearly marked on early OS 25” maps as a Tumulus, when the site was visited by the Ordnance Survey godfather, O.G.S. Crawford in 1932, he couldn’t locate it.
It is unclear if any aerial photographs were available at the time but O.S. Record Card 001 was created on the site and the later visits by L.V. Grinsell, ensured it got a listing in Volume 1 of the Wiltshire Victoria County History in 1957.

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