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<< Our Photo Pages >> Lower Swell barrow - Chambered Tomb in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by vicky on Wednesday, 03 November 2004  Page Views: 8753

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lower Swell barrow Alternative Name: Swell VI
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Stow on the Wold  Nearest Village: Lower Swell
Map Ref: SP17032580  Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.930456N  Longitude: 1.753731W
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 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.
 4 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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Lower Swell barrow
Lower Swell barrow submitted by HarryTwenty : Southern side looking northwards, nature is slowly taking over... (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Lower Swell barrow
Lower Swell barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The Captain's shot was from the SE - this is from the S (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lower Swell barrow
Lower Swell barrow submitted by HarryTwenty : Top of the barrow looking SE towards Lower Swell. The houses are slowly creeping closer, same story just about everywhere these days. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lower Swell barrow
Lower Swell barrow submitted by HarryTwenty : Top of the barrow looking NW towards Poleswood South long barrow (it's in the treeline above the green area just right of centre). Would have been intervisible in their day. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lower Swell barrow
Lower Swell barrow submitted by HarryTwenty : Western end looking NW towards Poleswood South long barrow. The small strip of green visible top left is the area infront of Poleswood South. All the barrows in this area were intervisible in their day. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lower Swell barrow
Lower Swell barrow submitted by HarryTwenty : Site of the barrow looking northwards, it's well camouflaged by foliage.

Lower Swell barrow
Lower Swell barrow submitted by thecaptain : Lower Swell long barrow seen looking northwest well down the hillside across the cropped field. I think that under the dark trees on the skyline to the left of th epicture is Poles Wood South long barrow.

Lower Swell barrow
Lower Swell barrow submitted by thecaptain : The barrow can be seen under the bushes in its little enclosure at the far side of the cropped field - strangely well down the hillside.

Lower Swell barrow
Lower Swell barrow submitted by Celia_Haddon : LOWER SWELL LONG BARROW SP 17032580 In a little spinney of hawthorn etc. near an arable field off a small unpaved road, North West of the village. A visible mound, flowering hawthorn either side, above the pink campion, with the elder bush on it. No 6 in Gloucestershire barrows by Helen O’Neil and L.V. Grinsell, transactions of the Bristol and Glos Arch. Soc. Part 1, vol 79-80, pp 5-149, l961-6...

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 420m ESE 119° Whittlestone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SP174256)
 440m WNW 283° The Tump* Round Barrow(s) (SP166259)
 635m NNW 332° Poles Wood South* Long Barrow (SP16732636)
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 720m NNE 14° Poles Wood East* Long Barrow (SP172265)
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 2.3km E 84° St Edwards (Stow Well) Well* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SP1931126039)
 2.4km ENE 60° Broadwell Chambered Tomb (SP191270)
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 2.7km W 270° Eyeford Chambered Cairn (SP143258)
 2.7km W 268° New Close Chambered Tomb (SP143257)
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 3.1km NW 323° Cross Well (Condicote)* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SP15122827)
 3.1km N 7° Ganborough* Chambered Tomb (SP174289)
 3.6km WNW 283° Cow Common Long Barrow* Chambered Cairn (SP135266)
 3.9km W 278° Cow Common Barrow Cemetery* Barrow Cemetery (SP132263)
 4.1km W 269° Huntsmans Quarry Timber Circle (SP129257)
 4.2km SE 129° Icomb Camp* Hillfort (SP20352315)
 4.8km NW 311° Oak Piece Chambered Tomb (SP134289)
 5.0km S 175° Salmonsbury Camp* Hillfort (SP175208)
 5.8km SSW 208° Cold Aston* Chambered Tomb (SP14342065)
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Re: Lower Swell barrow by HarryTwenty on Saturday, 13 January 2024
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Description from the twentytrees website:

Lower Swell Barrow

Gloucestershire, 22 S.W. Parish of Lower Swell. 39 *.

Latitude 51° 55' 48". Longitude 1° 45' 09". Height above O.D. about 560 feet.


Situated a quarter of a mile W.N.W. of Swell Church. It is not marked on the Ordnance Map or mentioned by Witts. It is covered by a thin growth of firs with elders round the lower edge. It is about 135 feet long. A narrow trench has been cut across it near the eastern end, but no chamber appears to have been found (to judge by its present appearance), and otherwise it appears to be unmutilated. There are no signs of a surrounding wall. It is in danger of being eventually destroyed, as it is unprotected by any fence in a ploughed field ; and ploughing appears to encroach yearly upon it. It is oriented W.N.W. and E.S.E. On the south side the scarp of the hillside is cut into, probably by the makers of the barrow, thus giving the appearance of a ditch on the north side. It is much higher at the east end. There are rabbit burrows (mostly abandoned) on the north side. Discovered and visited Novem- ber i8th, 1920; and revisited October 21st, 1922.

(www.twentytrees.co.uk/History/Prehistory/Thing/Cotswolds-Neolithic-Tombs.html?0LwxmM4L)
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Re: Lower Swell by TheCaptain on Friday, 05 January 2007
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Although I didn't cross the field to this long barrow, it is easily seen from the little road running westwards away from Lower Swell. It appears to be well left alone in an enclosure, and not ploughed out, and the remains look substantial.

Strangely, it's well down the hillside, near to the bottom of a little valley, and nowhere near the top of the ridge.
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