ANCIENT RAM INN

1. Public Record

Ancient Ram Inn, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. A steep street, a stone pub that claims the twelfth century, and a landlady who learned that the haunting sold as well as the ale. Caroline Humphries takes the house in the 1960s and spends the rest of her life telling visitors about a pagan burial under the floor, a priest's room, an incubus in the attic, and children who will not leave the building. Television crews come. Ghost-hunting groups pay to sleep badly. The bar still has to pass a health inspection.

What the paper actually holds is an old inn on a slope, a woman who would not sell quiet, and a stack of guest stories that agree on unease more than they agree on a name. Archaeology of the site is thinner than the brochure. A burial under a pub is a useful sentence. It is not the same thing as a tagged grave in a county museum. The Ram is still a building you can book.

A pint. A priest's room. A landlady who kept the lights on for the trade.

2. Date of Incident

Inn medieval in claim. Humphries years from the 1960s. Guest reports ongoing while the house stays open to that trade.

3. Location

Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. Approximate 51°38 N 002°21 W.

4. Official Narrative

A licensed premises. Official narrative is planning, ale, and listed-building paper. It does not certify a burial or an incubus.

5. Witness Layer

Caroline Humphries. Paying guests. Camera teams. Locals who will drink there and still roll their eyes.

6. Recovery Logistics

The building. Guest logs of a sort. No museum tray tagged Ram Inn burial.

7. Assessment

A pub can be heavy without a pagan priest. Old stone, a slope, a woman living alone with a story that paid the roof. That is already a file. The incubus is the part that belongs to late-night television. Keep it in the guest book. Do not put it in the county archaeology box.

This folder files the Ram as a working inn that chose to sell its nights. Humphries is the spine. The burial is a claim. If a guest slept badly, that can sit in a paragraph. It does not make the floor a grave.

8. Materials & Remains

The inn. Broadcast tape. No official burial find.

9. Key Personnel

Caroline Humphries : The landlady who kept the story and the licence.

10. Aftermath

The Ram stays on every haunted-Britain list. Wotton still has a high street. The pumps still have to work on a Tuesday.

11. Current Archive Status

Status: Old inn. Landlady story. Burial untagged.

Confidence: High that Humphries ran the house as a haunted inn and that guests reported unease. Low that a pagan burial is documented. Low that any named entity is typed.

Filing note

A steep Cotswold street, a stone pub that needed a story, a landlady who gave it one and lived inside it, a priest's room on the tour, a burial that never made the museum.

The pumps still had to work on a Tuesday. That is the sentence under the incubus.