EMMAS GROVE ROUND BARROWS

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Three bowl barrows, known as Emma's Grove round barrows, situated below the crest of a hill in the Cotswolds. The southern barrow is the largest, having a mound which measures 32 metres in diameter, and which is 4.2 metres high on its western side and 2 metres high on its east. In the centre of the mound is a large depression about 9 metres in diameter and 1.2 metres deep, which is thought to be the result of unrecorded excavation in the past. Surrounding the mound is a ditch up to 4 metres wide and 1 metre deep, from which material was excavated during the construction of the barrow. To the north west of the large barrow mound is a second mound, measuring 10 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres in height. A third barrow is situated 25 metres to the north east. This mound measures 12 metres in diameter and is about 1 metre high. These two smaller barrows also have depressions in the centre of their mounds which are considered to be the result of unrecorded excavation. Surrounding each of the smaller mounds are quarry ditches which are no longer visible at ground level, having become infilled. They survive as buried features about 2 metres wide. Scheduled.

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(SO 93491593, SO 93491596, SO 93471595) Tumuli (NR) (1)

(Centred SO 934159) A round barrow or castle mound at
SO 93491594 measures 32 paces in diameter by 12 ft in height
from the west, 6 ft in height from the east, and has a hollow in
the top 10 yds in diameter by 3 1/2 ft deep. The mound is
surrounded by a ditch 11 ft wide by 3 1/2 ft deep with slight
indications of an outer bank. At SO 93481597 and SO 93511598
are two round barrows measuring 12 paces in diameter by 2 ft
high and 12 paces in diameter by 3 ft high respectively,
both with holes in the centre and with no signs of ditches.
Crawford found stony patches, some of them probably barrow
sites, all over the adjoining field (centred SO 937160). (2-4)

SO 93481593 The mound is 4.2 metres high with an 0.7 metre
central depression, a 1.0 metre deep ditch and traces of a
counterscarp. It is most probably a barrow and not a castle
mound because of the small area of the top.

SO 93431595 8.0 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres high. Poor
condition.

SO 93481596 11.5 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high with a
slight central depression.

Crawford's 'stony patches' are not visible on the ground or on
OS APs - on arable land.

Published survey (25") revised. (4)

SO 934 160. "... the round barrows [See also SO 91 NW 2] recorded in
a coppice called Emma's Grove have since been destroyed" (5)

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(6) Scheduled Monument Notification

25-NOV-1999

( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 25" 1922

( 2a) by G B Witts 1883 Archaeological handbook of the county of Gloucester, being an explanatory description of the archaeological map of Gloucestershire

Numbers 24, 25 and 26 Page(s)100

( 2) Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

O'Neil & Grinsell 79, 1960 Page(s)109

( 3) Annotated Record Map

Rec 6" (O G S Crawford 20.12.20)

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 MJF 18-MAY-72

(5) Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

YJE Staelens 100, 1982 Page(s)21

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