long barrow

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long barrow

A mound of earth constructed over a Neolithic stone tomb.

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A Neolithic long barrow burial mound in a place known as Cat's Brain, in Pewsey Vale, Wiltshire, is being excavated by University of Reading experts and students in the first full investigation of such a monument in the county for half a century.

5,000-year-old 'House of the Dead'

The long barrow, spotted by aerial photography, is in a field at Pewsey Vale, Wilts, between the Avebury and Stonehenge sites.

Burial mound 'has links to Stonehenge'

Contractor address : Kingston House, The Long Barrow

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Among the many burial mounds is a striking long barrow 33 metres long within which signs of a massive timber building were found.

City academics unearth secrets of Stonehenge

The new display includes replicas of a Neolithic roundhouse and a burial chamber at the West Kennet long barrow.

Treasures From the 'King of Stonehenge' Revealed in Bronze Age Burial

A VERY intrepid group of Archaeology Cymru students made their way through the driving rain to explore a Neolithic Long Barrow near the very private village of Tythegston, Porthcawl.

Rain proves no hindrance for these intrepid archaeologists; Yousay IN YOUR OPINION..

A brisk 20-minute walk leads to Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb site that looks like a location set from Lord of the Rings.

The hidden Cotswolds; Mike Torpey goes off the beaten tourist track in one of the prettiest parts of England

Their bones were buried in the oldest part of the mound, known as a chambered long barrow, and researchers have now narrowed the date of their burials to between 3590 and 3560 BC.

IN BRIEF: Killing field

From Winchcombe take the Charlton Abbots lane south past Belas Knap, where the long barrow offers marvellous views.

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Paula Copestake, from Winchcombe in the Cotswolds, told her own personal story of seeing a procession of hooded men make their way across grassland close to the Neolithic long barrow of Belas Knap.

Most haunted place in Britain; X-FILES OPENED ON CREEPY COTSWOLDS

Meanwhile, about twelve miles west of Stonehenge in the vicinity of the Boles earthen long barrow near Warminster, there was a litter of glacially shifted stones from the Preselis.

STONEHENGE

However when the researchers used a revolutionary technique for dating remains to create a time-line, they realized that the process from agriculture to the development of long barrow chambers and causewayed enclosures happened much quicker than originally thought.