Photo Gallery
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VR Panoramas |
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| SO 79394 01327 (GPS 42min) | |
| Visited Aug 1995/ June 2000 |
The barrow at Nympsfield is a sad ruin
today, the mound is almost totally gone, only a slight rise and the suspicion of
the horned forecourt remain. The layout of the burial chambers is still evident,
a three chamber, cruciform, transepted arrangement. The covering mound was
carefully constructed with internal stabilising walls and a perimeter revetment
of drystone walling.The barrow seems to have avoided major destruction until
quite recently, surviving the middle ages thanks to the belief that it had been
a leper house. In modern times however, the mound was plundered for material for
road construction, so much so, that the original length of the barrow is now
unknown.
Excavated three times, in 1862, 1937 and 1974, the remains of about 17
individuals, children and adults, were found in the chambers along with pottery
and flint artefacts.