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.
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.
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