Uley Long Barrow
Uley Long Barrow , also known locally as "Hetty Pegler's Tump", is a Neolithic megalithic complex of the Cotswold Severn type . It is located in the English county of Gloucestershire , 1.6 km north of Uley . The alternative name comes from Hester Pegler, a property owner in the 17th century.
description
The west-east oriented mound is 37 m long, 26 m wide and 3 m high. The actual system was built from stone slabs and dry stone masonry . A 6.6 m long and 1.5 m high corridor once led to five chambers, roughly arranged in the shape of maple leaves, which contained the excarnated bones of about 20 people. The discovery of simultaneous complete skeletons in other burial mounds suggests that decarnation prior to landfilling was not a consistent practice. During the investigations (around 1821 and 1854) the two chambers to the north of the corridor were destroyed and the antechamber to the east was incorrectly reconstructed. In the antechamber, which is now only one meter high and covered by a huge portal stone, two human skeletons were found that had been buried with the tusks of boars . It is unclear whether these victims were or when the system went out of use.
The complex, which is partly in the area of the community ( Civil Parish ) Coaley , has been classified as a Scheduled Monument since 1921 and is therefore a listed building .
See also
literature
- Richard Cavendish: Prehistoric England Guild Publishing London 1983.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uley Long Barrow, on the Historic England website , accessed March 22, 2018. (English)
Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 55 " N , 2 ° 18 ′ 21" W