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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pole's Wood West - Chambered Tomb in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 24 September 2002  Page Views: 4778

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pole's Wood West Alternative Name: Swell III
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.0 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gloucestershire Type: Chambered Tomb

Map Ref: SP170266  Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.937649N  Longitude: 1.754128W
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
 1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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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
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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
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Pole's Wood West
Pole's Wood West submitted by dooclay : I went looking for this barrow and took this photo from the woods nearby - I could see no trace of a barrow here. The Google maps view is beter than average quality and shows nothing and the Gloucestershire KYP & HER sites have nothing here. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Tomb with badly disturbed long mound in Gloucestershire
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Pole's Wood West
Pole's Wood West submitted by HarryTwenty : This is the only bit of raised ground in the area of the missing barrow but it doesn't look very promising. Photo from April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pole's Wood West
Pole's Wood West submitted by HarryTwenty : Remains of the barrow on the left? Photo from April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pole's Wood West
Pole's Wood West submitted by HarryTwenty : There's a patch of bare rocky earth just to the left of the dip, remains of the barrow? Ploughed and/or quarried away probably. Photo from April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pole's Wood West
Pole's Wood West submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking south at the site of Pole's Wood West. It stood just in front of the dip at the edge of the tree line. Looks like it has completely disappeared over the last 100 years. Photo from April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Long Barrows of the Cotswolds, Darvill

Long Barrows of the Cotswolds, Darvill

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Re: Pole's Wood West by HarryTwenty on Saturday, 13 January 2024
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Description from the twentytrees website:

Pole's Wood West Barrow

Gloucestershire, 22 S.W. Parish of Upper Swell. 45a*.

Latitude 51° 56' 13'. Longitude 1° 45' 30". Height above O.D. 700 feet.


The remains of this barrow were discovered accidentally on Oct. 17th, 1922. It lies in the field adjoining Pole's Plantation on the west, and is 730 feet N.W. of the Pole's Wood South Long Barrow (No. 45) and 1820 feet west of the Pole's Wood East Long Barrow (No. 44). Its length by tape is 118 feet, and its distance from the western (north and south) wall of Pole's Plantation, 312 feet, measured along the north wall of the field. Its orientation is N.N.W. and S.S.E. The elevation is low and it has certainly been dug into in places. There are several bare stoney patches on its surface, and many big (but hardly " megalithic ") stones lying about over its southern end. It probably conceals a good deal of unrifled material. The field in which it lies is under permanent grass. This discovery confirms the remarkable concentration already referred to, and makes a total of four Long Barrows within a space of 1,000 yards square. If, as is probable, the Whittlestone and the " tump " 700 yards to the west of it are both remains of Long Barrows, this number would be raised to six.

Finds Near Stow on the Wold. Upper Swell Barrows. — [Pole's Wood East Barrow [Map] or Pole's Wood West Barrow [Map]] Had the programme been adhered to, the road from Upper to Nether Swell would have taken our party under the two horned barrows, described in "British Barrows," which, it was hoped, the Society would have inspected. A detail or two of "finds," subsequent, and too late for insertion in the above work, may be worth recording, viz: secondary Saxon interment, on that favourite spot, the horned end of Long Barrows. Two Saxons were interred, after their wont, in pure earth, on a barrow of sheer stones. No 1, a young man, arms bent ; left, on breast ; right, on stomach — clavicle, scapula, tibia, fibula wanting ; only half of right femur; under right pelvis, a small iron knife ; spear on right side. The bones were "mashed" by heavy stones over them. No. 2, spear-head, like that of No. 1, only horizontal over head ; left arm down by side ; a large knife below. This skeleton more perfect, was that of a strong tall man ; yet tibia, fibula, feet and finger bones were not found with the body ; but bones that might have belonged to it were found on the top of the barrow, lower down. The bones of both were, in part, decayed and weatherworn. Both lay on their backs in line with the harrow, a foot to 18 inches below the surface and 17 ft. from the curve in the horns.

(www.twentytrees.co.uk/History/Prehistory/Thing/Cotswolds-Neolithic-Tombs.html?0LwxmM4L)
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