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<< Our Photo Pages >> Cow Common Barrow Cemetery - Barrow Cemetery in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by vicky on Monday, 14 October 2002  Page Views: 6750

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Winchcombe  Nearest Village: Barton
Map Ref: SP132263  Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.935055N  Longitude: 1.809413W
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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Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Barrow on Cow Common. Photo from April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery of ten round barrows in Gloucestershire

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Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Sir Henry Dryden's plan of the barrow cemetery from 1874, showing 5 of the 9 barrows still existing at that time. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking NW at the long barrow. Photo from April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Western side looking south. Photo from April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Top of the long barrow looking east at the round barrow (centre of picture) ringed with a fence and hedging (pictured previously). Photo from April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Stone in the western side of the barrow. Photo from April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Western side looking up at the top of the barrow. Photo from April 2021.

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Western side. Photo from April 2021.

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Western side of the barrow. Photo from April 2021.

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Northern end looking south along the barrow. Photo from April 2021.

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Middle of the barrow looking north. Excavation pit on the right. Photo from April 2021.

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Top of the barrow showing the large excavation pit in the centre. Photo from April 2021.

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Burrow in the side of the barrow revealing some of the building stone.

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Long barrow at the western end of the cemetery. Photo from April 2021.

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking east at the barrow. This area was a large barrow cemetery in its day but most of them have now been ploughed out.

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : There's a barrow in here.

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking south over the barrow, not much room to manoeuvre inside the cage but I guess that's the idea.

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Edge of the barrow looking north. Not easy to see from this but there is a ditch and bank on the right hand side. Photo from April 2021.

Cow Common Barrow Cemetery
Cow Common Barrow Cemetery submitted by HarryTwenty : Round barrow on Cow Common barrow cemetery (Long Covert side). Photo from April 2021.

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Re: Cow Common Barrow Cemetery by HarryTwenty on Friday, 01 March 2024
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In 'British barrows : a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England' by William Greenwell (1877) available on the internet archive, Greenwell describes 2 long barrows existing on Cow Common, both with recurved ends.

Detailed description of one of them on p(513-514).

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Re: Cow Common Barrow Cemetery by HarryTwenty on Friday, 01 March 2024
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In 'British barrows : a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England' by William Greenwell (1877) available on the internet archive, Greenwell describes 9 barrows still existing in 1877:

"In the parish of Nether Swell, on a piece of ground called the Cow Common, and which until within the last twenty years was unbroken pasture-land, nine barrows are still remaining, one of them being a long barrow ; of these I opened five. They are placed close together, four of them in fact overlapping each other, so as to give the impression at first sight that the four mounds were really one and formed a long barrow. A more careful examination convinced me that they were four separate barrows, which subsequently proved to be the case. I have not before met with an instance where a series of barrows impinged in this way one upon another. They were placed in a direction north-east and south-west, and measured from end to end 152 ft., the mound at the south-west end being a little out of the line towards the west."

Pages 446-453 describe the excavation finds.

archive.org/details/britishbarrowsa01rollgoog/page/445/mode/1up?view=theater
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Re: Cow Common Barrow Cemetery by Anonymous on Monday, 15 January 2024
The only things still visible are one long barrow and three round barrows. These are both surrounded by metal fences and are overgrown with small trees and bushes. The rest of the barrows have been ploughed out. It doesn't feel like public land despite the 'common' part of the name, so not visitor friendly.
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    Re: Cow Common Barrow Cemetery by HarryTwenty on Tuesday, 16 January 2024
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    Which side of the road were you on, the Long Covert side (north side) or the Slatepit Coppice side (south side)?
    I took some pictures a few years ago but didn't post them as I thought the site wasn't very inviting. I've dug them out and posted them on the site page if you want to have a look at fences and hedging : )
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Re: Cow Common Barrow Cemetery by Sue on Saturday, 04 October 2003
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Visited this a couple of weeks ago- very large long barrow covered in bushes and trees, unfortunately the land owner is very aggressive and does not want visitors in his field.
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