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<< Our Photo Pages >> Poles Wood East - Long Barrow in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by TheCaptain on Tuesday, 24 September 2002  Page Views: 6325

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Poles Wood East Alternative Name: Swell V
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Stow on the Wold  Nearest Village: Lower Swell
Map Ref: SP172265  Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.936744N  Longitude: 1.751223W
Condition:
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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.
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 3 Ambience:
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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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Poles Wood East
Poles Wood East submitted by HarryTwenty : Western side looking SE along the barrow. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This long barrow was subjected to an excavation in 1875, and one probable lateral chamber was found.
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Poles Wood East
Poles Wood East submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking at the barrow from the western side, April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Poles Wood East
Poles Wood East submitted by HarryTwenty : Northern end looking east, April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Poles Wood East
Poles Wood East submitted by HarryTwenty : Western side of the barrow, April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Poles Wood East
Poles Wood East submitted by HarryTwenty : Northern end of the barrow looking south, April 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Poles Wood East
Poles Wood East submitted by HarryTwenty : Northern end looking west. Taken in April 2021 without foliage on the trees making it easier to see the barrow. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Poles Wood East
Poles Wood East submitted by HarryTwenty : Northern end looking south. The trees mean it can't now be seen seen from the other barrows in the area.

Poles Wood East
Poles Wood East submitted by HarryTwenty : Northern end looking south at the top of the barrow. It's 23m long and 19m wide.

Poles Wood East
Poles Wood East submitted by HarryTwenty : Northern end of the barrow viewed from the western side looking east.

Poles Wood East
Poles Wood East submitted by HarryTwenty : Closer view. An excavation in 1875 found 'the remains of 19 human skeletons, animal bones, worked flint and an Early Neolithic bowl. Three Saxon period burials were also recovered from the mound, demonstrating later deposition at the site' (Historic England)

Poles Wood East
Poles Wood East submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking west along the track at the northern end of the barrow, there is a large excavation pit visible. This is one of the two long barrows sited along the top of the ridge on this side of the valley, Poleswood South being the other one. These 2 barrows, plus the the Tump bowl barrow and the Lower Swell long barrow on the other side of the valley are all intervisible (or would have been when co...

Poles Wood East
Poles Wood East submitted by thecaptain : Poles Wood as seen from the lane between Upper and Lower Swell. There was no obvious route up into the wood, and I didn't have much time, so I didn't go into the woods to search out any of the long barrows within.

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Re: Poles Wood East by HarryTwenty on Saturday, 13 January 2024
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Description from the twentytrees website:

Swell Barrow 3 aka Pole's Wood East Barrow

This is in the parish of Upper Swell, half a mile west-south‑west of the village, and the same distance north of Lower Swell. The extreme length was 120 feet, and extreme width 40 feet; its direction was north-north‑east and south-south‑west, its horned end being at the north-north‑east end; its greatest height was five feet. It was surrounded by a wall which measured four feet in height at the north end. The principal interment was in a trench about twenty-eight feet long, six feet four inches wide, and two feet deep, and this was sunk below the original surface of the ground, similar to the trench described under the "West Tump." In this trench-chamber were found nineteen skeletons, also bones of the roe deer, red deer, ox, wild board, goat, pig, &c., bone implements, one vessel of coarse pottery, and a considerable number of worked flints. Three Saxon skeletons were found near the surface of the barrow.

See "Jour. Anthrop. Inst.," vol. V, p120.

Also "British Barrows," p524.

www.twentytrees.co.uk/History/Books/Thing/Long-Barrows.html?beBKOfC5
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Re: Poles Wood East by Zooks777 on Friday, 13 August 2021
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Just visible on the Environment Agency lidar (grey icon next to that for CamRA). Clearly a somewhat 'tall' barrow
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Re: Poles Wood East by TheCaptain on Sunday, 14 January 2007
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This long barrow was subjected to an excavation in 1875, and one probable lateral chamber was found.
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