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English linked translation of the Monuments de France page for Tumulus du Montioux

Site with more pictures of Tumulus du Montioux

Note:
Web site also includes pictures and info on other local sites including Tumuli de Bougon and Boxie

Notes from the proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland from December 11 1922
on Raedykes northern Stone Circle and the inner Stone Setting, together with the Ogam inscription which is incised on its southern side.

The Bath and North East Somerset SMR Listing from 31/3/1999.

Lists various monuments, all scheduled and protected by law

SMR Number : SU16SW608
Site Name : Gopher Wood
Grid Ref : SU13986393
Parish : Wilcot
Site Type : Bronze Age Disc Barrow
Scheduled Monument : AM035
Finds : Ceramics; Worked animal bone; Worked bronze; Human burial, secondary; Flint

Description
A Bronze Age disc barrow, 33ft by 3ft, excavated in the 19th century by Cunnington

Other barrows in this group include

SU16SW609 – Two bowl barrows, 10 paces by 2ft with traces of a ditch, opened by Cunnington. One had an urn with 2 perforated bone pins; the other a bone pin in a cist but no urn.

SU16SW606 – Three ditched confluent bowl barrows opened by Thurnam in 1863. The western interment was not reached; centre and east contained primary cremations.

SU16SW604 – A ditched bowl barrow, 11 paces by 3ft. B)It was visited by the Ordnance Survey in 1974 – 17.0m by 2.4m with a ditch 0.4m deep in the south side. Barrow is overlain by SU16SW605.

SU16SW605 – Bowl barrow, 10 paces by 3ft. It was visited by the Ordnance Survey in 1974 and found to overlay SU16SW604.

SU16SW607 – A bowl barrow with a smaller bowl barrow overlaying it on the south side

Maud Edith Cunnington CBE (née Pegge) (24 September 1869–28 February 1951), was a Welsh-born archaeologist, most famous for her pioneering work on the prehistoric sites of Wessex.

Woodhenge and The Sanctuary were bought by Maud and Ben Cunnington and given to the nation.

Stuart Ernest Piggott CBE (28 May 1910–23 September 1996) was a British archaeologist most well known for his work on prehistoric Wessex.

Wikipedia listing for the man who gave us all a chance to glimpse the world of the ancestors........

Follow the links on this page for more of the team.