The Ancient Burial-mounds of England by L.V. Grinsell

Author:L.V. Grinsell [Grinsell, L.V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Archaeology
ISBN: 9781317604693
Google: CREcBQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-24T05:01:26+00:00

THE QUANTOCK HILLS

On this range are between thirty-five and forty round barrows, nearly all cairns, some of which are large. Several have served as beacons, notably Cothelstone, Hurley Beacon, and Beacon Hill in the parish of West Quantoxhead. Among the best are Thorncombe Barrow, Hurley Beacon, that on Fire Beacon Hill, and those on Wills Neck, among which is a good ditched example. Between Williton and West Quantoxhead, west of St. Audries, is a round barrow called Bloody Pate.11 Some five miles NE. of the Quantocks is Wick Barrow, Stogursey, known also as the Pixies’ Mound, about which there is much folklore.12 It was opened by Mr. St. George Gray, who found interments with beakers, which are now in the Taunton Castle Museum. At Battlegore, Williton, there were formerly some megalithic slabs that might have originally formed the burial-chambers of a long barrow.13

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