Jug’s Gave 8km circular walk

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Distance: 4.89 mi
Elevation gain: 256 ft
Technical difficulty: Easy
Elevation loss: 256 ft
Max elevation: 510 ft
TrailRank: 33
Min elevation: 315 ft
Trail type: Loop

Moving time: one hour 32 minutes
Time: one hour 50 minutes
Coordinates: 1366
Uploaded: May 6, 2020
Recorded: April 2020

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near Winsley, England (United Kingdom)

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This is an 8km walk around the plateau area north west of Bradford-on-Avon. It incorporates open fields, woods, mainly on public footpaths but also some minor tarmac roads. The purpose was to find Jugs Grave, a Bronze Age Barrow. The barrow was excavated in 1946/7 by the renowned local dowser Guy Underwood he found on site two skeletons buried in a cist with other probable secondary burials and more importantly a Bell Beaker (now reconstructed) and some flint arrowheads (to be seen today in Bradford on Avon Museum).
The barrow is not easy to find because it is seriously overgrown, lies deep in a very dark and wet wood (Inwood) and has been very badly mutilated - furthermore it is situated within an old stone quarry - with loads of debris and smaller cairns at hand - (ST79686308)

References:
(a) pastscape; Wiltshire: Monkton Farleigh: 204149
(b) Victoria County History; Wiltshire; Vol 1; p184 - Grinsell
(c) Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 1947/8 Vol 51 p447 and Vol 52 p270 - Underwood

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Jug’s Grave

The barrow is not easy to find because it is seriously overgrown, lies deep in a very dark and wet wood (Inwood) and has been very badly mutilated - furthermore it is situated within an old stone quarry - with loads of debris and smaller cairns at hand - (ST79686308)