More information : (SU 3647 6222) Combe Gibbet (T.I.) Long Barrow (G.T.). (1) Combe Gibbet on Inkpen Hill, is a very fine example of an earthen long barrow, 65 paces long and about 25 paces wide at the border east end where it is 6 1/2 feet high. The long sides have ditches 5 paces wide and 3 ft. deep. (2).
Two flint flakes (?Neolithic), from the surface of the barrow, were given to Newbury Museum (131. 125. 13) by Grinsell (3).
A high post on the barrow was used for hangings. (4) The long barrow is still well preserved, but is becoming mutilated by farm traffic crossing over the mound and through the southern ditch. The mound ranges from 2.2 m. high at the east to 0.6 m. high at the west end. The gibbet, renewed in 1950, is said to be the third on this site. See G.Ps. AO/63/248/3-4. Re-surveyed at 1/2500. The flint flakes are in store in Newbury Museum. (5) Additional bibliography (6) SU 365622: Combe Gibbet long barrow, Inkpen Hill. (7)
The earthwork remains of the long barrow described by the previous authorities was seen as an earthwork centred at SU 3647 6224 and mapped from aerial photographs. (8) |