One of the Bartlow Hills

Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 3 Oct 2015

Four Romano-British tumuli survive fairly intact here, of an original seven*. Three are publicly accessible, this is one of the smaller ones, viewed from the top of by far the biggest one. The four survivors are in line roughly south to north. This is the southernmost. The other three tumuli were in a parallel row just to the west, the flattened remains of two are discernible in the public area. Needless to say, they are Ancient Monuments. * There is a contradiction on the original number, it could be eight, which number I am inclined to favour. On the descriptive board at the site, an engraving from a 1769 publication rather clearly shows five in the main row, although the site plan on the board only shows four. The fifth, at the northern end, now shows no trace. It could have gone with the landscaping of Bartlow Park, which made a bit of a mess of the only survivor north of the railway.

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