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Lovely bone bead from Notgrove, in Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery.

Finds from Notgrove in Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery.

Hand axe found near Hetty Pegler’s Tump, in Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery.

Looking SE along the mound.

From the south (glider for scale).

Plan and information from the board at the site.

The Soldier’s Grave, surrounded by trees and vegetation.

The Soldier’s Grave.

From the north.

From the NE, where the Belas Knap-esque shape of the forecourt is easily visible.

The stones removed from position and left on the grass.

The view from the southern chamber.

The eastern forecourt and exposed chambers.

Looking out across the Vale of Severn.

Now a haven for kite flyers.

From the west, with the bumps left by excavation clearly visible.

Seen from the east. The “standing stone” in the foreground is actually a topograph.

The north side.

The forecourt, clothed in spring greenery.

Very poor attempt to photograph the barrow over the fence. The barrow runs along the hedge and can been vaguely seen as a slight rise running from the bottom left of the picture to the middle right, where the hedge obscures it.

Horses not pictured.

Viewed from Limekiln Lane, from the SE.

The southern end.

The east side.

The view from the NE. Note limestone scatter in the foreground – possibly part of the field boundary, but also possibly from the barrow.

The Giant’s Stone in its setting, seen from the east. Is there a slight mound?

The Giant’s Stone, with low spring vegetation poised to take control.

Viewed from the road, looking SW. The continuation into the next field as a low mound can be seen in the centre of the picture.

The view of the long barrow from the east.

The southern megalith, showing sedimentary strata.

The remains of the chamber.

The northern barrow – the south end.

The southern barrow from the northern barrow.

The southern barrow from the east.

The low mound (barely) seen from the NW on the Cotswold plateau.

Not easy to photograph, the rise in the field is only discernable if you follow the tractor tracks away from the camera, where they take a slight upward tilt as they hit the barrow. Where’s Postman with better camera skills?

The stone-lined well and spout.

The well adjacent to the north side of Tibbiwell Lane.

The view from the north.

The badly damaged north side, showing animal burrows and much exposed limestone.

From the east end.

The west end.

The larger barrow clothed in spring green.

The smaller NE barrow in the foreground, with the much larger barrow behind.

The Birdlip Camp promontory, seen from Barrow Wake to the NE.

The more prominent northern end of the rampart, looking ENE.

The interior of the enclosure, looking WNW with the escarpment dropping away to the right of the picture.

Churchdown Hill from Witcombe Reservoir.

Crickley Hill (bare hill centre) and Birdlip Camp (right behind tree) seen from Witcombe Villa – see fieldnotes.