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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hangman's Stone (Northleach) - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by TheCaptain on Sunday, 11 February 2001  Page Views: 15386

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Burford  Nearest Village: Northleach
Map Ref: SP087151  Landranger Map Number: OL45
Latitude: 51.834445N  Longitude: 1.875144W
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
 2 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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Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Hangman's Stone (Northleach) submitted by thecaptain : Is this the remains of a burial chamber from a longbarrow ? Is it a fallen menhir ? Is it a more modern boundary stone ? Is it the remnants of a hangmans gibbet ? I don't know, but to me it could easily be the remains of a burial chamber. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Is this the remains of a burial chamber from a longbarrow ? Is it a fallen menhir ? Is it a more modern boundary stone ? Is it the remnants of a hangmans gibbet ? I don't know, I can't find any archaeological references to it, but to me it could easily be the remains of a longbarrow chamber.

The stone is about 2.5 metres long and up to a metre in height, and not very thick. The stone has two intriguing slots in it, at one of which the stone has broken. There are other bits and pieces of large stone slabs around in the area.

To find the stone, park at the gated entranceway near the junction of two minor roads a mile or so to the west of Northleach, near a radio mast. From here walk along the track (a public footpath, the MacMillan Way) for about 100 metres, and at the end of the wall turn left at the footpath sign. Here, beside the wall is to be found the Hangman's Stone.
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Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Hangman's Stone (Northleach) submitted by Ash : Another view showing the hangman's stone in the same shot. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Hangman's Stone (Northleach) submitted by Ash : Another stone approx 1 m to the left of the hangman's stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Hangman's Stone (Northleach) submitted by hamish : SP087152. Gloucestershire, Nr Northleach. One story goes that he was leading a sheep, fell over and got tangled up in the rope and strangled himself???? (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Hangman's Stone (Northleach) submitted by Andrean : Hidden behind weeds, didn't spot other stone that was mentioned but will look again. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Hangman's Stone (Northleach) submitted by NickyD : IMG_0014 Hangman''s Stone, Gloucestershire Image copyright: stonesearcher, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Hangman's Stone (Northleach) submitted by hamish : I still think it is a genuine Megalithic Holed stone.

Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Hangman's Stone (Northleach) submitted by thecaptain : The Hangman's stone is about 2.5 metres long and up to a metre in height, and not very thick. The stone has two intriguing slots in it, at one of which the stone has broken. There are other bits and pieces of large stone slabs around in the area.

Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Hangman's Stone (Northleach) submitted by thecaptain : End on view showing the position of the stone relative to the wall. The stone is about 2.5 metres long and up to a metre in height, and not very thick.

Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Hangman's Stone (Northleach) submitted by thecaptain : The situation of the Hangman's Stone. Easily found to the west of Northleach, near a radio mast.

Hangman's Stone (Northleach)
Hangman's Stone (Northleach) submitted by hamish : There is another stone near here but I haven't got a picture. SP087152.Gloucestershire Nr.Northleach. (1 comment)

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Re: Hangman's Stone (Northleach) by dooclay on Sunday, 21 May 2023
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Looking at Gloucestershire KYP Page led me to this on the Gloucestershire HER: HER 7062 DESCRIPTION:-
Site of Hangman's Stone was visited in 1920 by Crawford, who could find nothing but a small mound (he did not consider it a barrow). The stone in question had once been in use as a stile there. Hangman's Stone Down occurs as a field name in a tithe award of 1842 {1}.
A low mound 2m by 1m by up to 0.3m high - in no way resembles a barrow - has appearance of a spoil heap.
However - further west at SP08721513 are two stones. The northern, a flat slab 0.1m thick, 0.8m high and 0.8m wide, tapering downwards to 0.4m at the base is set into the wall as a stile - is probably that mentioned by Crawford {3}.
The southern stone leans against the wall 2m to the south. It is irregular shaped, much-weathered slab 2m long and up to 0.9m high with an apparently natural hole 0.4m long by 0.1m wide towards the south end.
No other associated features of any archaeological significance {2}.
1996 On 13th August 1996 Wessex Archaeology excavated two trenches near to Hangman's Stone. No archaeological deposits were revealed by the evaluation. {Source Work 3869.}
"Site code: W2262. Two trenches were excavated. No archaeological finds or features were revealed. The project was funded by Millenium Communicationsin advance of the construction of a communications tower and compound.
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Re: Hangman''s Stone (Northleach) by Anonymous on Friday, 21 October 2022
There is a long barrow about half a mile slightly north west to here.
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Re: Hangman's Stone (Northleach) by Andrean on Monday, 21 June 2021
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Quite overgrown on visit (well, it is June so peak weed season) but otherwise still in good shape as per the photos and situated between the two wooden posts.

Suggest visitors park in the long layby around the corner on the old A40 (known locally as Hangmans Corner - although most don't know of the stone) as the gated entrance is used by the farm. Also if travelling a distance, the nearby Old Prison by the traffic lights has a cafe, as does Northleach town centre.
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Re: Hangman's Stone (Northleach) by 4clydesdale7 on Tuesday, 31 January 2012
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During his illustrious career the famed OGS Crawford identified some 25 different sites bearing the name 'Hangman's Stone' - two of those sites are to be found in Gloucestershire - this in Hampnett (W of Northleach) and the other in Preston 1.5 miles SE of Cirencester along the A419 to Swindon

All the sites seem to have the same folklore attached to them - that a thief making off with a sheep tried to negotiate a stile stumbled and became entangled with the sheep's spoils (entrails) and so strangled himself

But (slightly more believably) nearly all seem to be situate where several parish boundaries meet thus they can be found where a Hundred Court could have met thereby becoming the site of a gibbet

In so far as this site is concerned OGSC actually came looking for a Long Barrow reported to be nearby - he opined that the Stones now to be found on the Macmillan Way had been removed from a nearby Long Barrow (there are several in the area) - they certainly fit the bill as the photographs show - this site is very easy to visit with many other interesting sites close-by

This site is 327444 on pastscape (the Preston site is 216662 - the Preston Stone may now be in the Corinium Museum catalogued as a fragment of a Roman Milestone) - both are mentioned by DP Sullivan in his pamphlets about Old Stones in Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds
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Re: Hangman's Stone (Northleach/Hampnett) by geoffss on Friday, 13 July 2007
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As I understand it, the site is on an ancient Salt Way (from Droitwich) and just off the Fosse.

Mention is made of two stones - of which the holed one is commonly mistaken for Hangman's, more properly a stile set in the nearby wall.

The holed (or 'holey' Hampnett) stone has no provenance.

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    Re: Hangman's Stone (Northleach/Hampnett) by 4clydesdale7 on Tuesday, 31 January 2012
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    It is also 1.5 miles SE of the White Way as it passes through the tiny Cotswold Village of Compton Abdale and about 1 mile NW of the Fosse Way - The White Way and The Fosse Way meet at Cirencester
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    Re: Hangman's Stone (Northleach/Hampnett) by 4clydesdale7 on Friday, 03 February 2012
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    The famous Saltway climbs the Cotswold scarp near Hailes Abbey NE of Winchcombe crosses Gloucestershire towards London and leaves the County at Lechlade - most of it can be traced today - the Saltway passes about 30m from the stone
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Re: Hangman's Stone (Northleach) by hamish on Sunday, 14 January 2007
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My pictures of Hangmans Stone seem to have disappeared from the Portal. I put them on here a few years ago,I wonder where they might be.
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    Re: Hangman's Stone (Northleach) by TheCaptain on Sunday, 14 January 2007
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    Pictures still here Hamish. They must have not been attached to the site page due to the age old apostrophe problem. All sorted now !
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Re: Hangman's Stone (Northleach) by TheCaptain on Sunday, 14 January 2007
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Is this the remains of a burial chamber from a longbarrow ? Is it a fallen menhir ? Is it a more modern boundary stone ? Is it the remnants of a hangmans gibbet ? I don't know, I can't find any archaeological references to it, but to me it could easily be the remains of a burial chamber.

The stone is about 2.5 metres long and up to a metre in height, and not very thick. The stone has two intriguing slots in it, at one of which the stone has broken. There are other bits and pieces of large stone slabs around in the area.

To find the stone, park at the gated entranceway near the junction of two minor roads a mile or so to the west of Northleach, near a radio mast. From here walk along the track (a public footpath, the MacMillan Way) for about 100 metres, and at the end of the wall turn left at the footpath sign. Here, beside the wall is to be found the Hangman's Stone.
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