Giant’s Grave

Nearest town:
Salisbury (10km N)
OS reference:
SU138200
OS sheet:
184
Latitude:
50° 58' 43.18 N
Longitude:
1° 48' 12.26 W
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Image of Giant’s Grave (Long Barrow) by drbob

“Please help to protect this vulnerable earthwork by keeping outside the fenced area.”

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drbob Jun 25, 2006

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Giant’s Grave

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drbob Jun 25, 2006

The barrow is fenced off, supposedly to protect it from the feet of the few people a week who might seek it out, and at midsummer it was too heavily overgrown to get much feel for.

Giant’s Grave

dickie
dickie Nov 1, 2005

Park at Breamore House Tea Rooms car park and follow woodland trail up past house , through woods, follow path down to the left of the woods with the miz-maze in.

Giant’s Grave

dickie
dickie Apr 21, 2005

We parked in the Breamore House/Tea Rooms car park and followed the path up past the house through the wood. Exiting the woods and following the path round the edge of a field the next wood is sign-posted by the Estate with a large ‘Miz-Maze’ pointer. We carried on to the left of Miz-Maze Wood and Giants Grave is in the field behind. For Hampshire its quite a large barrow. Interestingly the ‘mutilation’ referred to in ‘Hampshire Treasures’ actually give it a horn-work feel, like a Cotswold Severn a la Belas Knap.

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Giant’s Grave
Long Barrow
pure joy
pure joy Jul 8, 2003

The fantastic ‘Hampshire Treasures’ resource gives the following info – “Giants Grave’, Breamore Down . Long Barrow – SU138200 – Originally 65m. long and 26m. wide with flanked ditches. Now partly mutilated. No trace of ditches due to ploughing. Scheduled Ancient Monument no.35” Referred to in Pevnser’s guide to the “Buildings of England; Hants. and I.O.W”

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