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<< Text Pages >> Giant's Hill II Long Barrow - Long Barrow in England in Lincolnshire

Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 27 October 2011  Page Views: 3777

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Giant's Hill II Long Barrow
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.397 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Lincolnshire Type: Long Barrow

Map Ref: TF42927088
Latitude: 53.215762N  Longitude: 0.138931E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Long Barrow in Lincolnshire

"Giant's Hill II Long Barrow Skendleby. The mound has been ploughed out and was only identifiable by geophysical survey prior to total excavation in the 1970's. The site is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs taken in 2003."

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TF4271 : Giant Hills Long Barrow near Skendleby: aerial 2018 by Chris
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TF4270 : Earthworks next to Short's Holt near Skendleby: aerial 2014 by Chris
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TF4270 : Cropmarks and ridge and furrow north of Skendleby: aerial 2018 (1) by Chris
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TF4270 : Cropmarks and ridge and furrow north of Skendleby: aerial 2018 (2) by Chris
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TF4270 : Fields north of Skendleby: aerial 2023 by Chris
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Giants' Hills 2 Long Barrow, Skendleby, Lincolnshire by Andy B on Saturday, 29 September 2018
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Giants' Hills 2 Long Barrow, Skendleby, Lincolnshire
Article · January 1991
DOI: 10.1017/S0261340900014016
J. G. Evans

The Neolithic long barrow whose excavation is described in this report is one of a pair known as Giants' Hills, situated in the parish of Skendleby, Lincolnshire (NGR: TF(53)429709; Lat. 53° 12′ 40″ N., Long. 0° 8′ 30″ E.). The general geographical location is an outlier of the chalk at the southern extremity of the Lincolnshire Wolds (fig. 1). The site lay at between 56 and 58m O.D. along the gentle south-facing slope of a small river valley (fig. 2). The maximum slope is 7 degrees. Orientation was approximately south-east/north-west with what can be considered the more important end of the barrow (the front) towards the south-east.

The dimensions of the preserved mound were 65 × 13m (maximum) (originally 77 × 19m), and of the entire site from the original outer edges of the ditch, 89 × 29m (maximum).The other barrow of the pair, Giants' Hills 1, was excavated by C. W. Phillips (1936). To the south-east beyond a low chalk ridge and in a topographical position similar to that of the Giants' Hills barrows lies another pair of long barrows, the Deadmen's Graves.

On a broader geographical scale, both pairs belong to a group of about fifteen long barrows situated on the Lincolnshire Wolds (fig. 1).Excavation took place under the direction of the authors at the instigation of the Department of the Environment (now the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) because of damage sustained by ploughing. As well as being a rescue operation, the work can be seen as an integral part of research into prehistoric chalkland environments and Neolithic burial practices. Thus, financial support was provided not only by the DoE, but also by University College Cardiff and the University of Leicester. There were three field seasons. In the first two, from 4–28 September 1975 and 27 March to 10 April 1976, the western end of the site (west of line AL, fig. 4) was excavated totally. The main excavation took place between 14 August and 25 September 1976.

I. Giants' Hills 2 Long Barrow, Skendleby, Lincolnshire. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232003112_I_Giants%27_Hills_2_Long_Barrow_Skendleby_Lincolnshire
[accessed Sep 29 2018].
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Re: Giant's Hill II Long Barrow by DrewParsons on Friday, 28 October 2011
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There are extensive descriptions of the long barrows at Giant's Hill in the excellent book Earthen Long Barrows by David Field, Tempus Books, Stroud 2006.
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