This lovely Long Barrow is found in a nicely fenced enclave within a cropping field about a mile to the southwest of the village of Rodmarton. For once, the fenced area is extended away from the barrow enough to allow a good look at it, and to leave the edges clear from the ploughed field.
Much of the barrow has fairly modern walling surrounding it, particularly on the southern side and western end. The barrow is about 60 metres long and 20 metres wide, oriented approximately east to west, with its entrance forecourt and false portals facing east.
The false portal has its two sidestones standing in place, and also two smaller stones blocking the entrance. As well as the stone portal and forecourt, three chambers have been found by past excavations, two near the eastern end, one on the north, one on the south side, and also a further chamber on the norther side nearer to the western end.
The north and south chambers are said to be unusual in that they are cut below the natural ground level with steps down into them in their passageways. They are/were slab lined and had a sort of port holed entrance into each chamber. However, these are not visible anymore, having been filled back in, but the position of these chambers is clear to be seen, in fact in the year 2009, the southern chamber coud be seen right into and indeed entered by a small person willing to wriggle in the leafy filling!
The western chamber was only found in 1987 after a big storm had brought down one of the large trees growing on the mound, its fallen roots opening up the chamber for all to see.
These days (as of May 2010) the top of the barrow has been cleared of the undergrowth and many of the large trees which used to grow on it. The surface is a very lumpy bumpy stony mess, with pits all over the surface, no doubt due to either antiquarian treasure hunters, or perhaps the holes made by fallen trees.
During past excavations, the northern chamber was found to contain the skeletons of ten adults and three children, whilst the southern chamber contained a jumble of many other individuals' bones.
In order to visit the barrow, a layby has been made beside the little lane which runs west from Rodmarton, and a signed footpath has been made from here along the western edge of the field to the barrow.
The cache is not in the Barrow, but a few hundred yards away, so can visit the Long Barrow after and see the history. It lies to the west of the village of Rodmarton,