Ludford barrow - looking north
Ludford barrow
is a sizable slightly oval mound measuring between 30 - 35 metres in diameter
and 2.5 metres in height although it has been badly dug into during excavations
in 1941 and generally vandalised since. It stands a short distance to
the southwest of the village of Ludford and just a couple of hundred metres
from the B1225 road. This road is actually an ancient trackway now know
as 'High Street' that runs along the eastern spine of the Lincolnshire
Wolds and has several long
barrows and round barrows associated with it. Just a short distance
to the north is the source of the River Bain which goes on to flow past
several prehistoric monuments on its journey south so it could well be
that this barrow was an important part of the ancient Lincolnshire landscape.
Interestingly the farm just to the north of the barrow is known as 'Gally Hill Farm', this name being a reference to the belief that the mound was though to be the site of a set of gallows hundreds of years ago.
Glossary Item: Bronze Age
Interestingly the farm just to the north of the barrow is known as 'Gally Hill Farm', this name being a reference to the belief that the mound was though to be the site of a set of gallows hundreds of years ago.
Glossary Item: Bronze Age
View of the barrow looking south
