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| Re: The Toots (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Tuesday, 21 August 2001 |
| YES I LIVE NEARBY, and we visit it regularly, but its very cold in the winter! However, I will get some more photos, these on the internet jsut dont do it justice, there are several very interesting mounds, and Im jsut reading more on this, on the internet!JADEWOOD |
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| Re: The Toots (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Saturday, 12 May 2007 |
| 'The Toots' is located on Selsley Common - it has Selsey on the entry so an important 'l' is missing or people could be directed to Selsey Bill on the South coast - lol! The nearest village is Selsley - definitely not Uley, which is a good 4 or 5 miles away. Selsley falls within the parish of King's Stanley (the village I was brought up in) so that village, at least, should be put for location - Selsley isnt always printed on larger scale maps as it is tiny - but King's Stanley will be. Access to it - easy - The Common is owned by the Parish and everyone has free access to use it. You park near the road and just walk over to it I dont think anyone locally ever called it 'The Toots' - although I know that is its given name on OS maps - everyone always just called it 'The Bump' - lol - as it is so visible from the flat top of the common and from the villages below. You can see it as a visible 'bump' even from Gloucester and from the Welsh side of the River Severn. I dont think many people realise it is a burial mound - but it is very well used as a viewpoint. Everyone who goes for a walk on Selsley Common is drawn to it to walk to and stand on top of. People picnic on it - fly model planes from it, and I always used to ride my pony over it (!) Anyway - that is just a bit of background gossip in case you are interested. Judy |
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| Re: The Toots (Score: 1) by coldrum on Sunday, 03 January 2010 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| The following information is from the Pastscape site. "A long barrow 240 feet in length by 90 feet wide by 10ft high orientated ENE - WSW (2); no signs of a ditch. It has been opened in many places, especially at the east end (3), and a large gash across the middle has made it appear as two mounds. In 1880 "two hollowed stones from a burying place on Selsley Hill, and accompanying an interment" were exhibited at Stroud. If from this site, as seems likely, they could have been the hollowed slabs of a port-hole entrance burial chamber (2). (2,3) This long barrow has been dug across the middle in the past but only the indent in the top profile suggests two mounds. Towards the west end it is 2.0m high and at the east end 3.5m high. Surveyed at 1:2500. The name 'The Toots' is still applied locally. " http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115112 |
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