Mutlow Hill

Nearest town:
Cambridge (11km W)
OS reference:
TL547543
OS sheet:
154
Latitude:
52° 9' 53.23 N
Longitude:
0° 15' 43.63 E
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Image of Mutlow Hill (Round Barrow(s)) by GLADMAN

Not in that bad nick for such an unknown site.... the most substantial barrow in the locality.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Mar 28, 2011
Image of Mutlow Hill (Round Barrow(s)) by GLADMAN

Approaching along The Harcamlow Way to the south-east. Nice.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Mar 28, 2011

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Folklore

Mutlow Hill
Round Barrow(s)
Rhiannon
Rhiannon May 2, 2002

Mutlow Hill is a mid Bronze age roundbarrow next to the impressive Saxon Fleam Dyke. It was reused by the Romans for a temple site. A gold coach is reputedly buried inside. An 1852 source put it that this “is, or should I rather now say has, been implicitly believed among the labouring classes thereabouts for many years.“(!)*

‘Mutlow Hill’ might come from ‘Moot Low’ / ‘Gemot hlaw’ – a Saxon meeting mound. It is at the boundary of three hundreds.

*quoted by Westwood and Simpson in their 2005 ‘Lore of the Land’.

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