Long Barrow from Nympsfield
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The Long Barrow of Nympsfield (also called Frocester I) is located in "Coaley Peak Country Park", north of the eponymous village in Gloucestershire in England .
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The approximately 2800 BC The Cotswold Severn Tomb was built on a trapezoidal hill in the 4th century BC and has a cruciform chamber made of limestone blocks . The two side chambers are larger than the frontal chamber. All capstones are missing. In the northern (side) chamber there was an area divided into quarters or a small stone box in which the corpses of children were found. The hill, which dates from the Neolithic period, is about 27.0 m long, 18.0 m wide on the broad side and oriented northwest-southeast. A facade and a forecourt, on which there were fire pits and pig bones from an indefinite period, could be reconstructed using the footprints.
The facility has been examined several times since 1862, most recently in 1974 by A. Saville. The remains of 23 people were found. Some of the bones were singed from the fire. Traces of red chalk , a leaf-shaped arrowhead and broken ceramics of the type “Ebbsfleet Ware” were discovered. Quartz pebbles , characteristic of this type of structure, were found at the ends of the hill. The finds from the excavations are in the "Gloucester City Museum". The facility is comparable to that of Notgrove and the Uley Long Barrow . On a steep spur nearby is the Uleybury Promontory Fort .
Another Neolithic burial site was discovered about 200 m north under a round hill unusual for the Neolithic. The 3.3 m long and 1.35 m wide Soldier's Grave ( German " Soldier's Grave " ) is ship-shaped, with a straight stern and a pointed bow, cut into the rock. In the north-south facing ship, the remains of at least 28 dead lay together with broken earthenware and the bones of cattle, pigs and dogs. The boat-shaped tomb points to a belief, handed down from Celtic legends, that the dead make a journey to an island of the blessed in the western sea.
See also
literature
- Richard Cavendish: Prehistoric England London 1983
- EM Clifford: The Soldier's Grave, Frocester, Gloucestershire
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Coordinates: 51 ° 42 '36.9 " N , 2 ° 17' 58.9" W.