VII.—Notgrove Long Barrow, Gloucestershire

Elsie Margaret Clifford

doi:10.1017/S0261340900015393

VII.—Notgrove Long Barrow, Gloucestershire

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Elsie Margaret Clifford

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The Long Barrow lies one mile north-west of the village close to the northern boundary and near the north-west corner of the parish of Notgrove, Gloucestershire. It is situated in a field called ‘Poors' lot’, or ‘Poors' allotment’, by the road from Cheltenham to Bourton-on-the-Water, and is about a quarter of a mile east from Notgrove G.W.R. Station. It is one of the Cotswold long barrows of which there are two others about two miles away, while the Swell group is only four and a half miles distant. It is marked as the remains of a long barrow on the 6-in. Ordnance Survey, Gloucestershire XXVIII. 10, latitude 51° 53′ 20″, longitude 1° 51′ 40″.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 86 , 1937 , pp. 119 - 161

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900015393 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1937

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^{page 120 note 1} Called A, B, C, and D on present plan.

^{page 120 note 2} These objects were left by Witts to the Cheltenham Museum, to which the present writer has presented the material found in this excavation.

^{page 120 note 3} Proc. C.N.F.C., viii, 63.

^{page 125 note 1} Thurnam stated that the orientation of long barrows was east and west in two out of three or perhaps three out of four cases. In the Cotswold area there are twenty barrows orientated east and west, which is two out of five—the average orientation for the fifty barrows being very nearly south-east.

^{page 126 note 1} Evidence of rifling in the Roman period has been found in the following long barrows in this district: Bown Hill, Belas Knap, Hetty Pegler's Tump, Hoar Stone, Enstone, Randwick, Windmill Tump (or Rodmarton), Cow Common.

^{page 127 note 1} Trans. Bristol and Gloucester Arch. Soc., 5, 205–7.

^{page 127 note 2} British Barrows, 487.

^{page 128 note 1} Not a definite pit in centre: near centre, bodies laid on a stone bed. Archaeologia, lxxxv, 37–106.

^{page 128 note 2} Archaeologia, lxxx, 179.

^{page 128 note 3} The circular hut recorded at Lamborough Banks (Trans. Bristol and Gloucester Arch. Soc., 56 (1934), pp. 95–8) does not furnish any real analogy with the central dome at Notgrove.Google Scholar

^{page 129 note 1} Bryn Celli Ddu and Orkney furnish parallels for this; Archaeologia, lxxx.

^{page 129 note 2} Arch. Camb., LXXXII (1927), 37.Google Scholar

^{page 130 note 1} Crawford, Long Barrows of the Cotswolds, 113.

^{page 130 note 2} A calf was also found at Bown Hill.

^{page 130 note 3} Bone tools or ornaments have been found in Bown Hill (L.B.C., 84), Belas Knap (ibid., 77), Hetty Pegler's Tump (ibid., 104), Pole's Wood East (British Barrows, 527).

^{page 131 note 1} At Rodmarton long barrow in chamber B there is a port-hole, and in that chamber there was a considerable fire.

^{page 131 note 2} Archaeologia, LXXVI (1927), 81.Google Scholar

^{page 132 note 1} British Barrows, 513–15.

^{page 132 note 2} Arch. Camb., 6th sen, XV (1915), 253.Google Scholar

^{page 133 note 1} A barrow of uncertain form but containing a megalithic cist has recently been noted in this parish near the road.

^{page 134 note 1} Archaeologia, lxxx, 200.

^{page 136 note 1} At Bryn Celli Ddu burnt bones were found in a similar position.

^{page 136 note 2} Thanks are due to Mr. C. W. Phillips for this explanation.

^{page 136 note 3} Mr. Radford's views are to be found on p. 154.

^{page 138 note 1} Mr. Overbury wrote as follows: ‘I visited the barrow twice during the progress of the excavations, on one occasion taking my experienced Cotswold clerk of works. Together we carefully examined the retaining walls and came to the conclusion that certainly the thinner ones—2 ft. and less in thickness—could alone never have supported the weight of the covering. Further; the external face of these walls when freshly revealed showed no signs of ever having been exposed to the weather. We also observed that clay existed in the joints of the masonry—which Mrs. Clifford describes as extra-revetment material—giving the appearance of mortar.’

^{page 140 note 1} Arch. Camb., 6th ser., XV (1915), 318.Google Scholar

^{page 142 note 1} Fire is recorded in the following long barrows: Belas Knap, Rodmarton, Bisley, and Nympsfield.

^{page 142 note 2} British Barrows, 530.

^{page 144 note 1} Crawford, L.B.C., 14.

^{page 144 note 2} Arch. Camb., LXXVI (1921), 296.Google Scholar

^{page 144 note 3} Arch. Camb., LXXXVIII (1933), 185.Google Scholar

^{page 144 note 4} Crawford, L.B.C., 137.

^{page 145 note 1} Weasel was found at Nether Swell (British Barrows, 514).

^{page 146 note 1} Kimmeridge shale could be obtained in Wiltshire.

^{page 146 note 2} There are fourteen sites in the Cotswold area with beaker evidence, and six of these are long barrows.

^{page 146 note 3} Proc. Congress Prehistoric Sci., 1st session (1932), 144Google Scholar; Proc. Prehistoric Soc., 1935, 122.Google Scholar

^{page 147 note 1} Cat. Devizes Museum, fig. 145.

^{page 147 note 2} Abercromby B.A.P., ii. 61. Colt Hoare's Ancient Wiltshire, i, p. 202.

^{page 147 note 3} Thanks are due to Miss Eleanor Hardy for photograph and help in this connexion.

^{page 149 note 1} The writer is indebted to Mr. Glyn Daniel for parallels.

^{page 149 note 2} Antiq. Journ., I (1921), 187.Google Scholar

^{page 153 note 1} Richardson, L., ‘The Geology of the Country around Moreton-in-Marsh’ (Mem. Geol. Surv.), 1929, 77.Google Scholar

^{page 153 note 2} Ibid, 110, III.

^{page 153 note 3} Ibid., 144.

^{page 154 note 1} Richardson, L. (Mem. Geol. Surv.), 1929, 78.Google Scholar

^{page 158 note 1} O. G. S. Crawford, L.B.C.

^{page 159 note 1} G. B. Witts, Archaeological Handbook of Gloucestershire.

^{page 159 note 2} Grundy, G. B., ‘Ancient highways and tracks of Worcestershire and the Middle Severn’, Arch. Journ. XCI (1934), 66.Google Scholar

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