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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Galley Hill (Streatley)Country: England County: Bedfordshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Luton Nearest Village: Streatley
Map Ref: TL092270 Landranger Map Number: 166
Latitude: 51.930811N Longitude: 0.413189W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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JohnLindsay visited on 20th Mar 2016 Starting from where the Old Bedford Road runs out, to become a path, or from the 25 bus stop near Weydown, a short walk takes you into the Galley And Warden Nature reserve, which doesn't appear to tell you anything about the archaeology
This might though
http://www.archaeologyuk.org/cbasm/index_htm_files/VOLUME%2009.PDF
Now I've found Dyer, Barrows of the Chilterns, Arch 116, which is on ADS and found by author Dyer. The Galley Hills is only one group of the lot he mentions. I don't think I want to add this reference to all the others. How one does collections like this is a general matter.
There are more articles after 1959 by him but Arch.J. is available only until v120 at present for public access. You need to be a member of RAI for later issues access. There is a complete set in the SAL library, which membership of the RAI allows access.
There is another Galley Hill, in Sandy, for which there seems to be less literature.
can't be sure of the accuracy of the pdf locator, but it is vol 9.
I'm not sure of the reference next to the photograph in the site entry, which I didn't notice earlier, but the Beds.Arch started in 1962. There is an article by Dyer in the first edition, on Barton, which I think is a different matter. The Barton one comes up again in issue 19. This, 1974, is the only one to appear in BIAB.
I've cracked the reference matter, it is Beds Arch J. v.2., 1964, 16ff and part of a longer article dealing with Waulud's Bank, Five Knolls too.
So he has Arch J. 116. this, and BAJ 9. plus there might be some more. This is becoming untidy bibliography.
(TL075266 to 090265) Ref James Dyer: Beds. Arch. Jornal. 1961 p116. (1st excavation by my school's Arch. society 1951)
Note: RSPB and EH excavate iron age fort at Sandy, see comment
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