King Offa’s Tomb

Nearest town:
Bristol (9km SSE)
OS reference:
ST579820
OS sheet:
172
Latitude:
51° 32' 5.29 N
Longitude:
2° 36' 25.34 W
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King Offa’s Tomb

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CARL Mar 26, 2012

Visited 25.3.12

I say ‘visited’ but perhaps it was ‘not visited’?

Using a photo to help me identify the Barrow I did see a small ‘mound’ near the edge of a field which could possibly have been the Barrow – or then again it may have just been a ‘bump’ in a field!

If it was the Barrow it is now no more than a very low, almost ploughed out, grass covered mound.

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King Offa’s Tomb
Round Barrow(s)
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Jun 13, 2008

I wonder if Ike’s still about. I’d love to know how he knows about this site and its name.. I can’t see the name on the maps. But anyway. Once there must have been a barrow round here and maybe this is it.

In a Tumulus at Over, in this parish [Almondsbury], opened in the year 1650, was found a human skeleton, in a sitting posture, which report affirms to have exceeded the common stature by three feet. No well-authenticated account of the discoveries made on the opening of this sepulchre, appears to have been written.

Doesn’t seem unreasonable that a 8ft+ man would have been a king, fair enough.

From v5 of ‘The Beauties of England and Wales’, 1810.
books.google.co.uk/books?id=gtsuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA728

On a map from 1880 I see ‘site of tumulus’ is marked at 58828178. So maybe that’s the one referred to above, rather than Ike’s mound?

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