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been sealed off. Excavations in the 19th century unearthed pieces of Roman pottery
and an Edward IV silver groat. The mound (or tump) gained its curious name from the
17th-century owners of the land, Henry and Hester (or Hetty) Pegler.
Note
If you wish to visit Hetty Pegler's Tump - or Uley Tumulus, as it is also known -
turn right and walk along the road for about ½ mile (800m). A key is available at Crawley
Barns to enable visitors to enter the main chamber.
Bear left alongside the wood,
then left again at a junction onto a road descending Frocester Hill. A few
paces along this turn right on a woodland path, go down some steps and
past a quarried cliff. Continue along the path, which eventually emerges
from trees and scrub through a kissing gate, and rises onto a green hilltop
meadow at Frocester Hill, with yet more splendid views - especially to-
wards Cam Long Down and Cam Peak. Wander along the scarp edge to
pass
Nympsfield Long Barrow
(grid ref: 794015) with the car park of
Coaley Peak Country Park to your right.
Cross the meadowland beyond the long barrow and be guided by way-
marks into woodland again. The path takes you alongside a small fenced
quarry with the road not far off to the right. You then bear left on a way-
marked path which begins the descent of the slope. There are several
crossing tracks and alternative paths, but waymarks keep you on course
and eventually bring you out of Stanley Wood through a kissing gate above
Woodside Lane. Walk along the upper edge of a meadow, pass above
Woodside Farm, then cut across the slope a little to find a stile leading
into some jungly undergrowth. The path soon improves and rises gently
through the mature beech woods of Pen Wood.
NYMPSFIELD LONG BARROW
Nympsfield Long Barrow is similar in concept to many Neolithic barrows of the Severn-
Cotswold Group. Constructed around 2800
BC
it was used for burials and, probably, as
a place of ritual. The site was first excavated in the 19th century when the remains of
13 people, together with a flint arrowhead and some pottery, were discovered in the
pair of side chambers that lead from the main passageway.
ALTERNATIVE ROUTE
While the traditional Cotswold Way leaves Pen Wood at grid ref: 818027 on a path
leading to Middleyard and King's Stanley (for accommodation and refreshments), a
longer alternative route has been created that avoids these two neighbouring villages.
