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Swanborough Tump is a Bronze Age burial mound near Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire. The mound was the meeting place of the ancient Swanborough Hundred, It has also been linked with the "Swanabeorh" of a AD 987 Saxon charter titled 'Barrow of the peasants'. A stone monument commemorates the meeting here of Aethelred and his brother, the future Alfred the Great, in AD 871 on their way to fight the Danes. The topographical position of the mound, on level ground, has suggested to some that it may have been constructed as a moot or meeting-place during the mediæval period. It is within the council area of Wiltshire.
Historic England Scheduled Monument 1004743.

Place Type: Prehistoric Monument
Historic County: Wiltshire
Lat, Long: 51.339877,-1.8142139
Grid Reference: SU 1303 6010
Civil Parish: Manningford CP
Council Area: Wiltshire CA
Police Area: Wiltshire PA

GBPN ID: 304800
Entry Type: Main listing (P)
URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Swanborough_Tump,_Wiltshire_304800

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