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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Gallows Hill, WiltshireCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.1 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Wiltshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Map Ref: ST95542411
Latitude: 51.016349N Longitude: 2.064956W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Round Barrow in Wiltshire
A disc barrow was identified on Gallow's Hill Alvediston, By Clay, and comprised a mound 18 feet in diameter and 3 feet high with an external bank 1 foot high and outer ditch 15 inches deep (2) Grinsell describes it as a bowl barrow surrounded by a tree ring (1). Excavation by Clay about 1924-5, showed that the mound had been disturbed by man and rabbits. A few pieces of burnt bone and possibly Bronze Age sherds were found with many recent glass and pottery fragments. An ill-defined cist was found at the centre of the mound. The most northerly of the Scotts pines growing in the ditch was probably used as the gallows which gave the site its name. It has footholds cut in it and marks of chains or ropes. About 1875 a skeleton was found in making a dew-pond to the south of the trees and was probably the burial of an executed criminal.
The mound is 5.8m in diameter and 0.6m high and is surrounded by an outer ditch, 17.5m diameter and 0.1 to 0.3m deep, with vague indications of a bank on the inside. It is under grass with no evidence now of excavation. The finds made when it was excavated and its present appearance are consistent with it being abowl barrow enclosed by a tree-ring. No further information on the gallows was obtained but one of the trees has indentations visible upon it.
As described by F1, the outer ditch to the mound has been destroyed by ploughing on the west side and the rest of the work overgrown by rough grass and scrub. A tree stump at ST 9554 2419 on the N side of the mound could be the site of the gallows."
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