Thanks are due to the Secretary of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for permission to reproduce extracts from the BGAS's Transactions. Here a couple of intriguing items from 1925.
"Less than a mile away are three barrows, one a particularly fine long barrow of the Neolithic Age, at "the Crippets", two round barrows near the inn known as the "Air Balloon", and by the side of the road to Birdlip, was found a beautiful mirror enamelled in colours, at a burial place of the Iron Age, one of the most striking specimens ever discovered of that period, now in Gloucester Museum. Hence there was sufficient reason to welcome the opportunity of exploring and dating the tumulus and the adjoining camp.
A particularly interesting feature of the core of Leckhampton Camp is the appearance of the action of fire or intense hear, which has reddened the yellow oolite rock in a remarkable way. This peculiarity is not confined to Leckhampton Camp - for it is very noticeable at Crickley Camp - two miles away.
Thomas Lloyd Baker, in a paper read before the Society of Antiquaries, London in 1818, refers to this fact for which there is no adequate explanation."
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