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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Winterslow Barrow 223320 is in Winterslow, Wiltshire [Map].
Winterslow Barrow 223320 [Map]. A Bronze Age bell barrow, part of the Winterslow Hut Barrow Group, situated to the northwest of 'The Pheasant'. The barrow was designated as Idmiston 23 by Grinsell (1957) and survives as an earthwork 30 metres in diameter and 3.5 metres high. The mound is not situated within the centre of the ditched area, as the berm varies from 9 metres to 12 metres in width. The ditch is visible both as an earthwork and a cropmark, is 4 metres wide and up to 0.2 metres in depth. Excavations by the Rev. A.B Hutchins in 1814 located an intrusive Saxon inhumation accompanied by a shield, spear, buckle and a bucket. The grave goods give a 5th or 6th century date for the burial.
1814. Thomas Guest (age 33). Grave Group from a Surface Interment at Winterslow Barrow 223320 [Map]. The bucket, shield boss and grip, spearhead and bronze brooch date to the Saxon period. They are from a surface interment (burial) in the Winterslow 'colossal barrow', which is possibly pictured behind the grave goods.
1814. Thomas Guest (age 33). Grave Group from a Bell Barrow at Winterslow Barrow 223320 [Map]. The beaker, copper dagger and two flint arrowheads were excavated from a bell barrow by the Revd A. B. Hutchings, and they are now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
1814. Thomas Guest (age 33). Two Biconical Urns from a Barrow at Winterslow Barrow 223320 [Map].
1814. Thomas Guest (age 33). These Bronze Age Urns excavated by Reverend A. B. Hutchings at Winterslow Barrow 223320 [Map] are now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This is one of four paintings by Guest in the Museum's collection.