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Bronze Age Barrows on Charmy Down and Lansdown, Somerset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Audrey Williams
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Charmy Down is a plateau three miles north-east of Bath (fig. 1, 1), east of the Bath-Tetbury road. About a square mile in extent it has a general height of well over 600 ft. To the north the scarp falls swiftly, on the east more gently, to the wooded valley of St. Catherine's Brook, a tributary of the Bristol Avon and the modern Somerset–Gloucester boundary. At the foot of the steep western scarp a second stream flows south to the Avon. On the south Chilcombe Bottom separates Charmy Down from Solsbury Hill, distinguished by its Iron Age earthwork. The underlying rock is oolite, a southward continuation of the Cotswold formation.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 1-2 , April 1950 , pp. 34 - 46
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1950

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page 35 note 1 To be published by Mr. W. F. Grimes.

page 35 note 2 County Arch. Series, Somerset, pp. 68–9.

page 35 note 3 B. M. Add. MS. 33671.

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page 43 note 8 Personality of Britain, pl. v.

page 44 note 1 Barrows 1 and 2, Martin, Trice, Proc. Som. Arch. Soc, Bath Branch, 1911, p. 124Google Scholar; barrows 3 and 4, Martin, Trice, Proc. Bath Nat. Hist. and Antiq. Field Club, 1905–1906, p. 11Google Scholar, and, for barrow 4, J. P. E. Falconer, Britain's Tut-Ankh-Amen; barrows 5 and 6, Bush, T. S., Proc. Som. Arch. Soc, Bath Branch, 1911, pp. 122–4Google Scholar; barrows 7, 8, and 9, ibid., 1908, p. 207.

page 44 note 2 Britain's Tut-Ankh-Amen, p. 2.

page 46 note 1 Proc. Som. Arch. Soc, Bath Branch, 1911, has a photograph. It is not possible at present to have access to this pottery for re-examination.