• Leslie Valentine Grinsell OBE FSA (14 February 1907 – 28 February 1995) was an English archaeologist and museum curator. Publishing over twenty books...
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    Most bell barrows in the United Kingdom date to the early Bronze Age. Leslie Grinsell constructed a typology for bell barrows: Type Ia: A single mound with...
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    as being "Wayland Smith's Forge". The folklorist and archaeologist Leslie Grinsell suggested that the decision to name it this on the map was influenced...
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    kings of Kent who died in battle. The archaeologist and folklorist Leslie Grinsell believed that the countless stones motif would only have been applied...
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    Antiquity. 50 (198): 89–94. 1976. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00070824. Grinsell, Leslie (1980). "The Cerne Abbas Giant: 1764–1980". Antiquity. 54 (210): 29–33...
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    1723 as being 13 feet (4.0 m) long, it is now about half that length, Leslie Grinsell suggesting that fragments have occasionally been broken off for mending...
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    believed that a crock of gold would be buried there, something that Leslie Grinsell deemed to be part of local folklore. Edwin Dunkin produced a plan of...
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  • Roger Hetherington, president of the Institution of Civil Engineers Leslie Grinsell, archaeologist Roger le Geyt Hetherington, president of the Institution...
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  • University of London, where he was in the same cohort as Sinclair Hood and Leslie Grinsell; senior by a year were Nancy Sandars, Grace Simpson, and Edward Pyddoke...
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  • Circle" on their map. In his 1970 study of the archaeology of Exmoor, Leslie Grinsell thought that it was "probably" a stone circle. The common is also the...
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  • Deverall AM, businessman William Kelsey Fry, pioneering dental surgeon Leslie Grinsell OBE, archaeologist Cecil Humphery-Smith OBE, genealogist and heraldist...
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  • England. Only one of the three barrows nearby has been investigated: Leslie Grinsell reported in 1934 that one had been opened by Major F. Maitland, in...
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    Menefee, published in the Folklore journal in 1975, and was part of Leslie Grinsell's catalogue of folkloric motifs associated with prehistoric sites in...
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    examined the site in its "overgrown state". In 1953, the archaeologist Leslie Grinsell reported that several small trees and bushes had grown up within the...
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  • Kathleen Kenyon and V. Gordon Childe. Fellow students included Leslie Grinsell and Leslie R. H. Willis; senior by a year were Nancy Sandars, Grace Simpson...
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    Prehistoric Society: 1–3. Grinsell, Leslie V. (1953). The Ancient Burial-Mounds of England (second ed.). London: Methuen & Co. Grinsell, Leslie V. (1976). Folklore...
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    Saxon charter titled 'Barrow of the peasants'. Although recorded by Leslie Grinsell as a bowl barrow, the structure is untypical of a prehistoric burial...
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    understanding that these megaliths had lives of their own. The archaeologist Leslie Grinsell reported that in the mid-1970s, he learned of a folk tale that the...
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  • RCHME report also commented on the history of the two barrows: in 1934 Leslie Grinsell noted that both had been damaged, presumably by antiquarians or looters...
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    that was a via publica, maintained at central government expense. Grinsell, Leslie (1958). The archaeology of Wessex. London: Methuen. p. 298. OCLC 400319...
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    barrows outside the enclosure are listed in a gazetteer of Wiltshire by Leslie Grinsell, published in 1957, identified as Alton 10 and Alton 13. Phillips excavated...
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    circles on Exmoor: Withypool and Porlock Stone Circle. The archaeologist Leslie Grinsell suggested that the circular stone monument on Almsworthy Common was...
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    the Reverend E.H. Steele in 1957; and with further correlations by Leslie Grinsell, also in 1957. Some burials and items were left in place by Cunnington...
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    circles on Exmoor: Porlock and Withypool Stone Circle. The archaeologist Leslie Grinsell suggested that the circular stone monument on Almsworthy Common was...
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    Angeles, California: Getty Publications. pp. 416. ISBN 978-0892368174. Grinsell, Leslie V. (1975). Barrow, pyramid, and tomb : ancient burial customs in Egypt...
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    Prehistoric Society: 1–3. Grinsell, Leslie V. (1953). The Ancient Burial-Mounds of England (second ed.). London: Methuen & Co. Grinsell, Leslie V. (1976). Folklore...
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    New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11406-5. Grinsell, Leslie V. (1976). Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in Britain. London: David...
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  • Egyptian Civilization." National Geographic Apr. 2005: 106-21. Print. Grinsell, Leslie V. Barrow, Pyramid and Tomb: Ancient burial customs in Egypt, the Mediterranean...
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    round barrow cemetery". Historic England. Retrieved 18 July 2020. Grinsell, Leslie V. (1934). "Sussex barrows". Sussex Archaeological Collections. 75:...
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    writers who have expanded and embellished ad libitum as fancy prompted Grinsell, Leslie (1958). The archaeology of Wessex. London: Methuen. p. 298. OCLC 400319...
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