A complex, multiphase site with impressive ramparts that originated in the late Bronze Age but were much expanded during the Iron Age. There is evidence of  around 100 platforms, most likely for dwellings. It has also had a wooden castle built on it. Little is known of this building but it is suspected to have originated between the 12th and 15th centuries CE. Photos © David Lambie

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One of the best Neolithic chambered tombs in the country, this is to be found near the Somerset village of Wellow, around 5km south of Bath.  It was constructed about 3800 BCE and was in use for around two centuries.  It has an antechamber just inside the tomb followed by a passage leading to seven chambers. The entrance faces more or less south east.  Access across fields which can be muddy. There are several routes, of up to about 1km. Photos © David Lambie

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It is easy to wander round the impressive remains of the original Roman town wall and foundations of a number of the town's buildings.
Photos © Zilla and David Savage

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A number of years ago, some man-made "platforms", areas levelled from the nature contours of the ground, were noted in a local field. Since then a team has made regular surveying and excavation campaigns on what is a rich and exciting site. 

The site is private and not visitable without agreement but the gallery has some nice pictures and their website is a fund of interesting information. Siston website

Active around 3700 BCE this long barrow has an impressive portal setting at the north end. This however, is a "false entrance". A limited number of bones, mainly of children were found behind these stones but most internments were made in four chambers along the sides and at the other end of the barrow. This massive structure was built over what is thought be be a much smaller, earlier monument, a circle of stone slabs buried near the centre of the current barrow. Photos © David Lambie 

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One of the Severn-Cotswold group of long barrows, this is a notable Neolithic chambered mound, found between Nympsfield and Dursley in Gloucestershire. The name, Hetty Pegler's Tump, references the name of one of the 17th century land owners, Henry and Hester Pegler.

Built around 3800 BCE, access in the north east, via a forecourt, leads to 5 chambers. It was used over about 2 centuries before the forecourt was filled with stone to block the way in. The remains of, at least, 22 people, men, women and children have been found in there, together with a few grave goods, including a perforated boar's tusk pendant. 

Substantially reconstructed in the 1850s, it suffered from vandalism and decay over the centuries. Some finds suggest that it was dug into in Roman times.

Access is along 300m rough path at the side of a field. You can gain entry to the chambers but you have to crawl through a low passage, over rough stones. Access can be dirty and it is worth taking a torch to see the side chambers.

Like Hetty Pegler's Tump, this is classified as a Cotswold-Severn barrow, one of around 150 scattered from Oxfordshire to Somerset. Looking out over the Severn Valley this Neolithic burial mound stems from about 3800 BCE. It would have originally been covered and stood around 2m high.

It was used for about 2 centuries then the forecourt, at the east end, was filled with stone to "seal" it. The remains of around 20 men, women and children have been found within it, together with two neolithic pots and a pendent fashioned from a dog whelk.

Access is over level grass, about a 50m stroll from the carpark.