Possible Round Barrow in Bowshot Wood
Description of this historic site
Two round barrows, dating to the Bronze Age, are thought to have been located 700m from Compton Verney House, Compton Verney, in Bowshot Wood.
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Notes about this historic site
1 At Frizhill, near Combrooke, there are distinct tumuli in Bowshot Wood.
2 Two miles from Moreton Morrell on the Foss Way is Bowshot Wood which contains a tumulus.
3 Bowshot Wood is centred at the above grid reference. It has fairly thick undergrowth and only a limited perambulation was possible. No mound of any description was seen.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
According to legend, the reason that Bowshot Wood acquired that appellation is that two people owned land which the other wished to add to his own estate. In the end one agreed to exchange some of his land for a Talbot sporting dog. The amount of land that the one acquiring the land would receive would be the square of the distance which he could shoot an arrow, using a bow, down the Fosse. It would have gone a long way, but it struck a massive oak instead. So he acquired the woodland which became known as Bowshot Wood.
Source: “Folklore of Warwickshire” by Roy Palmer
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