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Uley Long Barrow, also known locally as Hetty Pegler's Tump, is a
English Heritage, retrieved 11 April 2012 It measures about long, wide, and has a maximum height of .Uley Long Barrow
Pastscape, retrieved 11 April 2012 It contains a stone-built central passage with two chambers on each side and another at the end. The earthen mound is surrounded by a dry-stone revetting wall. The barrow was archaeologically excavated in 1821, revealing the remains of fifteen skeletons and a later, intrusive
The barrow was reopened in 2011 after a short closure for essential
Megalithic Portal: Hetty Peglers TumpEnglish Heritage: Hetty Pegler's Tump
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Neolithic
The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several p ...
burial mound
Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objec ...
, near the village of Uley
Uley is a village and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Elcombe and Shadwell and Bencombe, all to the south of the village of Uley, and the hamlet of Crawley to the north. The village i ...
, Gloucestershire
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The county town is the city of Gl ...
, England.
Details
Although typically described as along barrow
Long barrows are a style of monument constructed across Western Europe in the fifth and fourth millennia BCE, during the Early Neolithic period. Typically constructed from earth and either timber or stone, those using the latter material repre ...
, the mound is actually a transepted gallery grave
A gallery grave is a form of megalithic tomb built primarily during the Neolithic Age in Europe in which the main gallery of the tomb is entered without first passing through an antechamber or hallway. There are at least four major types of ga ...
. It was probably built before 3000 BC.History and Research: Uley Long BarrowEnglish Heritage, retrieved 11 April 2012 It measures about long, wide, and has a maximum height of .Uley Long Barrow
Pastscape, retrieved 11 April 2012 It contains a stone-built central passage with two chambers on each side and another at the end. The earthen mound is surrounded by a dry-stone revetting wall. The barrow was archaeologically excavated in 1821, revealing the remains of fifteen skeletons and a later, intrusive
Roman age
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burial above the northeast chamber. It was excavated again in 1854.
The mound is nicknamed after Hester, wife of the 17th-century landowner Henry Pegler. Hester died in 1694, and Henry in 1695. It is clearly signposted from the side of the nearby Crawley Hill (B4066 road
B roads are numbered routes in Great Britain of lesser importance than A roads. See the article Great Britain road numbering scheme
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) between Uley and Nympsfield
Nympsfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is located around four miles south-west of the town of Stroud. As well as Nympsfield village, the parish contains the hamlet of Cockadilly. The population take ...
. It is about south of Nympsfield Long Barrow
Nympsfield Long Barrow is the remains of a Neolithic burial site or barrow, located close to the village of Nympsfield in Gloucestershire, South West England.
It lies at the edge of a woods, and is now the location of a picnic site. It is one ...
.
The barrow was reopened in 2011 after a short closure for essential health and safety
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work.
See also
*List of English Heritage properties
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References
External links
Megalithic Portal: Hetty Peglers Tump
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