Spellow Hills

Nearest town:
Alford (7km NE)
OS reference:
TF402722
OS sheet:
122
Latitude:
53° 13' 40.6 N
Longitude:
0° 6' 1.83 E
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Spellow Hills

Chris Collyer
Chris Collyer May 13, 2002

There is no access to this badly dug into barrow, but it can be seen across the fields on the left of the A16 from Partney to the circle at Ulceby cross. It is some distance away though and is difficult to spot if there is a crop in the field!

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Spellow Hills
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Rhiannon
Rhiannon Jul 21, 2005

Grinsell says that Spellow Hills were originally ‘Spellhou’ – incorporating a word for hill, so now it’s a bit of a double name. The barrow (looking as it does like several barrows) was known as the ‘Hills of the Slain’ and it was said ‘bones and armour were found’ inside ‘many years ago’. The barrow was also regarded as a place where plague victims had been buried, or the dead soldiers from a mythical ‘Battle of Partney’ (Partney being a nearby village).

(’Ancient Burial Mounds of England’, 1936)

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