Text this colour is a link for Members only. Support us by becoming a Member for only £3 a month by joining our 'Buy Me A Coffee page'; Membership gives you access to all content and removes ads.
Text this colour links to Pages. Text this colour links to Family Trees. Place the mouse over images to see a larger image. Click on paintings to see the painter's Biography Page. Mouse over links for a preview. Move the mouse off the painting or link to close the popup.
Priddy, Somerset is in Somerset.
Ashen Hill Barrows, Priddy, Somerset, South-West England, British Isles
Ashen Hill Barrows is also in Mendips Bronze Age Round Barrows.
Priddy Circular Enclosures, Somerset, South-West England, British Isles
Priddy Circular Enclosure 1, Priddy Circular Enclosures, Somerset, South-West England, British Isles [Map]
Priddy Circular Enclosure 1 is also in South England Circular Enclosures.
Priddy Circular Enclosure 1 [Map] is 194 m (636 ft) in diameter, with a surviving ditch up to 6 m (20 ft) wide and 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) deep. It has several gaps, but the one to the north-north-east was a causewayed entrance feature.
Priddy Circular Enclosure 2, Priddy Circular Enclosures, Somerset, South-West England, British Isles [Map]
Priddy Circular Enclosure 2 is also in South England Circular Enclosures.
Priddy Circular Enclosure 2 [Map] is 185 m (607 ft) in diameter, with a bank up to 6 m wide and 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high, and the ditch is up to 0.5 m (1 ft 8 in) deep. There are three gaps present in this earthwork, and the one to the north-north-east is possibly an original feature. Within circle 2 is a possible ovoid barrow mound measuring 14 by 9 m (46 by 30 ft), and 0.4 m (1 ft 4 in) high.
Priddy Circular Enclosure 3, Priddy Circular Enclosures, Somerset, South-West England, British Isles [Map]
Priddy Circular Enclosure 3 is also in South England Circular Enclosures.
Priddy Circular Enclosure 3 [Map] has a diameter of up to 190 m but only two-thirds of the earthwork is present.
Priddy Circular Enclosure 3 [Map] is up to 190 m (620 ft) across, with a bank up to 1 m high and 7 m (23 ft) wide, and ditch up to 1 m deep and 5 m (16 ft) wide. There are four gaps in this circle, the one to the south-south-west is considered an original entrance feature because it directly faces the north-north-west entrance of circle 2.
Priddy Nine Barrows, Somerset, South-West England, British Isles
Priddy Nine Barrows is also in Mendips Bronze Age Round Barrows.
Archaeological Journal Volume 15 Pages 199-215. Stukeley, fresh from the Downs of Wiltshire, wondered that he observed no tumuli or barrows, the burying-places of the people about it, as in other cases, but supposed this owing to the goodness of the soil; for, as he goes on to say, "they wisely pitched upon barren ground to repose their ashes, where they could only hope to lie undisturbed: and on Mendip Hills, not far off, they are very numerous. This particularly I am told of seven that are remarkable." The group to which Stukeley alludes is most probably one of two on Priddy Hill, of which one is formed of nine [Priddy Nine Barrows], and the other of seven barrows [Ashen Hill Barrows]. Many others, however, are to be seen on the Mendip range. The Priddy barrows were examined by the late Rev. John Skinner, in 1815, and in all cases in which the interment was found, cremation appears to have prevailed. In some the ashes were found in urns, in others without urns in cists, or on flat stones without cists. The urns were rude and unbaked, with the zigzag ornament, and usually reversed. One of them was embossed with projecting knobs, like that which was dis interred by Sir R. C. Hoare from a tumulus on Beckhampton Down. The following articles were also discovered: amber beads and a small blue opaque glass bead with them, perforated; brazen (bronze) spear heads; flint and brazen (bronze) arrow-heads; and an ivory pin, upwards of 4 inches long. These barrows are of different sizes, the highest being 12 feet high, and 164 in circumference. The Men clip Mines were doubtless extensively worked by our British forefathers, and a considerable trade in metals must have been carried on by them with foreign nations.