Windmill Tump Long Barrow

Windmill Tump, also called Rodmarton Long Barrow, is an early Neolithic chambered tomb of the Cotswold Severn type, built between about 4000 and 3500 BC. Its trapezoidal mound of small stones is 57 metres long and still stands up to 2.75 metres high. At the eastern end, two projecting horns frame a forecourt and a so-called false entrance of two standing stones and a lintel, blocked by a slab and never giving access to the tomb. Excavators found 13 skeletons and leaf-shaped arrowheads in the northern chamber in 1939, and when two trees fell in the great storm of 1987 they exposed a previously unknown chamber holding a child's bones. Reviewers value the information boards and the quiet setting among open fields, though little shows beyond the grassy mound and entrance stones. Park in the layby on Oathill Lane and follow the signposted field-edge path, which can be muddy after rain. Only assistance dogs are allowed.