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	EARTH MYSTERIES: Belas Knap Long Barrow
		It is situated, like the Toots long barrow and Hetty Peglar's Tump, not at the very top of the hill but just below the crest of the slope so that when it was first built it would have been visible as a bump outlined against the sky from the valley below.
		It is a chambered barrow with a false entrance at the larger northern end.
		The actual burial chambers, four in all, are located on the long sides of the mound and in the tail.
	witcombe.sbc.edu /earthmysteries/EMBelasKnap.html (696 words)

	Nympsfield - Cotswold-Severn cairn (Chambered Long Barrow) - Gloucestershire
		The barrow at Nympsfield is a sad ruin today, the mound is almost totally gone, only a slight rise and the suspicion of the horned forecourt remain.
		The layout of the burial chambers is still evident, a three chamber, cruciform, transepted arrangement.
		The covering mound was carefully constructed with internal stabilising walls and a perimeter revetment of drystone walling.The barrow seems to have avoided major destruction until quite recently, surviving the middle ages thanks to the belief that it had been a leper house.
	www.megalithics.com /england/nympsfld/nympmain.htm (147 words)

	The Wiltshire Web - Barrows
		This barrow is 225 feet long by 120 feet wide and 15 feet high and also the acts as the terminous of the second stone avenue out of Avebury.
		The sarsens from the burial chamber protrude from the barrow.
		One of the biggest barrows in Britain, this is a spectacular barrow measuring 340 feet long by 75 feet wide, and a line of stones at its east end up to 12 feet high forming a corridor 40 feet into the barrow.
	www.wiltshire-web.co.uk /history/barrows.htm (1369 words)

	Stoney Littleton Long Barrow SAM record - Bath & North East Somerset Council
		The monument includes a chambered long barrow situated on a limestone outcrop overlooking the valley of the Wellow Brook to the north and west.
		Long barrows were constructed as earthen or drystone mounds with flanking ditches and acted as funerary monuments during the Early and Middle Neolithic periods (3400—2400 BC).
		This barrow is one of the better known and most striking examples of a group of long barrows commonly referred to as the Cotswold Severn group, named after the region in which they occur.
	www.bathnes.gov.uk /BathNES/environmentandplanning/Archaeology/StoneyLittletonSAMRecord.htm (646 words)

	Weyland's Smithy
		Weyland's Smithy is the remains of a neolithic long barrow.
		This typical three chambered long barrow is very close to the ridgeway track near uffington, in oxfordshire, on top of the berkshire downs.
		Presumeably when the Saxons saw the barrow remains they decided it was where Weyland did his work.
	www.newarchaeology.com /articles/weylandssmithy.php (203 words)

	PDNP: Time/Ritual & Religion/Barrows & Chambered Cairns
		Chambered cairns have mounds with internal chambers built with large stone slabs, often with low entrance passages.
		An exceptional site, Long Low near Wetton, has a mound that is 210m long with a sealed chamber at its broader end and a forecourt in which to hold rituals and ceremonies.
		The prominent Bronze Age round mound is superimposed on one end of an earlier long barrow, visible to the left.
	www.peakdistrict-nationalpark.info /time/ritual_religion/barrow_cairns.html (1165 words)

	Megalithic Tour of Gloucester Barrows
		This is a fairly well-restored turf-covered chambered long barrow aligned on the early-May sunrise.
		The barrow consists of a straight gallery (7 metres long) with end-cell aligned on an early-May sunrise at 64 degrees east of north.
		Our party, having reached the barrow, the rain (and hail) came on heavily and we were obliged to wait under the shelter of great trees for some time before returning to the cars which we had left close to the standing stone.
	www.stonehenge-avebury.net /tourglos.html (1756 words)

	Neolithic and Bronze Age Sites in England - Photo Gallery
		The barrow is 170 ft (52 m) long, 59 ft (18 m) maximum width and 12 ft (3.7 m) high.
		The barrow was restored after excavation in 1928; the lintel of the portal and the upper layers of revetment walling seen in the picture are recent additions.
		It is oval in plan, having a long axis of 350 ft (107 m) and entrances at the North-east and South-west.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /mjpowell/Photo_Archive/England/England_4.htm (1315 words)

	West Kennet Long Barrow
		The long barrow at West Kennet is a monumental chambered Neolithic tomb, situated high on a chalk ridge in Wiltshire, close to Silbury Hill and not far from the utterly breathtaking sanctuary at Avebury.
		The main passage penetrates approximately forty feet into the barrow, with two of the previously mentioned burial chambers on each side of the main passageway and one burial chamber at the end of the passage.
		During the last study it was discovered that the side chambers of the barrow form a precise isosceles triangle, the height of which is exactly twice the length of its base.
	www3.sympatico.ca /ci.kerr/wkennet.html (602 words)

	Mystic Sites: West Kennet Long Barrow
		West Kennet is one of the largest chambered long barrows in Britain and is more than 100m (320 ft) long and 2.4m (8ft) high, with a row of large, upright sarsen stones at the left end marking the entrance.
		It is believed that this tomb was in use for as long as 1,000 years and at the end of this period it seems the passage and chamber were filled to the roof by the local inhabitants - known as the Beaker People - with earth and stones.
		The long barrow is on the A4 between Marlborough and Calne in Wiltshire.
	beehive.thisisbristol.com /default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=7612&PageID=40599 (430 words)

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		A steep but well-signposted path leads to the 170 feet long barrow where the remains of 30 people were discovered in three chambers and a long cyst.
		This barrow is situated in the trees to the north of Gatcombe Park.
		Situated in Buckle Woods west of B4070, this barrow is 150 feet long and has a single chamber which contained 20 remains and, on raised stones, the remains of a young woman and baby.
	www.digital-brilliance.com /hyperg/history/iron_age.htm (1221 words)

	Stoney Littleton Chambered Long Barrow - Wellow, Avon
		The walk was rewarded however, by what is considered to be one of the best Neolithic chambered long barrows in this part of the country.
		Work to shore up the chambers now ensures that the visitor can examine the interior of the mound, albeit sometimes at a stoop as parts of the 16 metre passage are only just over a metre in height.
		It is not known how many bodies were buried within the barrow, it was first opened in 1760 and pillaged in the years that followed, although it was hastily excavated in 1816 and substantial number of bones, some bearing evidence of burning, were recovered.
	www.stone-circles.org.uk /stone/stoneylittleton.htm (317 words)

	Stoney Littleton Long Barrow guide book - Bath & North East Somerset Council
		The Stoney Littleton long barrow is deservedly the best-known chambered long barrow in the Bath—Frome area.
		The large slabs forming the entrance, gallery and chambers are of a finegrained blue-grey limestone from the Blue Lias, probably from the area of Newton St Loe, some 5 miles (8km) to the north west.
		The barrow is among the finest known accessible examples of the ‘true entrance’ type, comprising entrance leading via a vestibule to a gallery with pairs of side chambers (known technically as a transepted gallery grave).
	www.bathnes.gov.uk /BathNES/environmentandplanning/Archaeology/StoneyLittletonGuideBook.htm (1484 words)

	Positive Evolution \| the best way to predict your future is to create it
		A chambered neolithic long barrow 120 feet long, 85 feet at its widest, and 10 feet high at the entrance end.
		The gallery beyond the entrance is 22 feet long, 3 to 5 feet in width, and 5 feet high.
		Originally there were two pairs of facing side chambers on the north and south sides, but those on the north have been blocked off since 1821 when the first excavations occurred.
	www.freewebs.com /samsimillia/local.htm (322 words)

	Gloucestershire gazetteer
		The burial chambers are built into the sides of the barrow, one about half way along each side, a third on the east side close to the south end and the fourth at the south end of the barrow.
		Excavation of the barrow revealed over 30 skeletons, a number of whose skulls showed evidence of heavy blows at or just before the time of death, flint sickle blades and saws and a perforated boar's tusk pendant.
		There is a deep forecourt at the east end, leading to a gallery inside the mound which gives access to two chambers on each side of the barrow and the larger terminal chamber, ie the layout is not unlike that of the barrow at West Kennet.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /gazette/gazglou.htm (437 words)

	Oxfordshire
		This long barrow can be found just off the Ridgway surrounded by lovely scenery and hidden within a small group of tree's.
		Period II: This barrow is 54m long with a diameter ranging from 15m - 6m.
		The chamber itself is in the shape of a cross, and is 6.6m long with a chamber on each side.
	www.geocities.com /Stoneheadz/Oxon.html (331 words)

	YLM vol 1 no 2 pp42/9 'King Orrys Grave'
		The chambered long barrows are all believed to belong to the age of polished stone, and Thurnarn regards them as the burial places of the Dobuni, an ancient British race, whose capital was in Gloucestershire, on the site of what is now Cirencester, and who were gradually dispossessed by the Belgae.
		In this chambered tumulus were found cleft skulls similar to those at Rodmarton, also flakes and knives of flint, a bone pin, fragments of British pottery, and a single head made of Kinirreridge shale.
		The chamber in the centre was formed by overlapping stones projecting gradually till a dome was formed, which was closed by a slab.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/iomnhas/lm1p042.htm (1591 words)

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		The mound is 350 ft long and varies in width from 75 ft at the east end and 50 ft at the west end, where it terminates in a sepulchre approx 35 ft wide, 43 ft long and 8 ft high.
		Entering the tomb beyond the forecourt there are two burial chambers either side and a larger polygonal one, 2.3m (7.5ft) high, at the end of the passage.
		It is thought that this tomb was in use for as long as 1,000 years and at the end of this period the passage and chamber were filled to the roof by the Beaker people with earth and stones, among which were found pieces of pottery, bone tools, and beads.
	www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk /englandwestkennet.htm (438 words)

	Details, Somerset HER
		The mound now resembles a barrow but the S end may have been removed when the A362 was made.
		The barrow appears to be orientated due N-S. The N part survives as a well defined mound 0.8m high.
		A heavily burned chunk which was probably part of a larger core and a retouched flake, possibly a mesolithic double sided scraper was discovered on the mound of this ploughed long barrow on 5 January 1997.
	webapp1.somerset.gov.uk /her/details.asp?layer=smr&PRN=23165 (368 words)

	West Kennet Long Barrow - Wiltshire, England
		The West Kennet Long Barrow is a prehistoric burial mound near Avebury in Wiltshire, England.
		There are several long barrows (oblong burial mounds) in the Avebury area and it is possible that each one served a clan or extended family.
		It appears that bodies were buried in social groups: the west chamber was mainly for adult males; the northeast and northwest chambers for mixed adults; the southeast for the old and the southwest chamber for children.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /england/west-kennet-long-barrow.htm (1486 words)

	Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust - Projects - Historic Landscapes - The Middle Usk Valley: Brecon and Llangorse
		The earlier prehistoric remains are typified by the Neolithic chambered long barrow of Ty Illtud, lying in the east of the area between Brecon and Llangorse Lake.
		Local tradition says that the empty chambers of Ty Illtud were later used as a hermitage by St Illtud in the 6th century, at which time a number of crosses and other Christian symbols were carved into its walls.
		The later prehistory of the Bronze Age is represented by a number of round barrows and burial cairns which occupy the higher ground overlooking the rich valley floor of the Usk, which in turn plays host to a number of enigmatic standing stones.
	www.cpat.org.uk /projects/longer/histland/usk/usk.htm (1658 words)

	West Kennet Long Barrow
		The West Kennet Long Barrow consists of an earth bank approximately 100 metres (330 feet) in length.
		The barrow tapers from a wide eastern end to a narrow western end and is flanked by two ditches.
		The tomb at West Kennet was found to have five burial chambers containing the remains of 50 people.
	www.cyberwitch.com /Wychwood/SacredSites/westKennetLongBarrow.htm (86 words)

	Avebury info page
		It consists of four bell barrows and one bowl barrow, excavated in 1849 by the antiquary J. Merewether.
		The mound is 330 feet long with flanking quarry ditches (no longer visible) extending the full length of mound on either side.
		The tree-covered mound, 344 feet long is well preserved and presents a striking appearance sloping gradually to north-east from its highest point.
	www.kennet.gov.uk /planservices/AveburyW.nsf/touraveInfomap (873 words)

	Berkshire History: Wayland's Smithy (Ashbury)
		‘Wayland’s Smithy’ is a neolithic chambered long barrow, made famous by Sir Walter Scott in his ‘Kenilworth,’ the tale of a Berkshire farrier.
		When the chamber was full, two flanking ditches were dug and the extracted chalk piled over the top of the chamber and edged with sarsen stones.
		The main roof was six foot high and the chambers, four and a half.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /archaeology/waylands_smithy.html (484 words)

	Site Visits
		The weather was overcast and there was a sharp cold wind as student Tom Wilson summarised the history of the monument and related the folklore story of how the King and his Men got to be petrified by the local cunning hag.
		It is possible that a Tantric-style megalith was set up at other chambered barrows besides these, and we would appreciate being informed of others by correspondents.
		The barrow is 55 metres or 180 feet long, and tapers in width from 15 metres (48 ft) to 6 metres (20 ft).
	www.stonehenge-avebury.net /sitevisits.html (1757 words)

	Stone Pages • Glossary
		A long barrow is an extended tumulus, an unchambered long barrow is a long tumulus without a burial chamber, and a chambered barrow is a tumulus containing a tomb, generally megalithic
		The burial or funerary chamber is a stone or wooden construction greater than 2 x 1 externally and 1 x 1 m internally: these measurements distinguish it from the cist.
		Kind of long chambered tomb occurring in northern Ireland and SW Scotland.
	www.stonepages.com /glossary.html (1734 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Chambered long barrow
		Chambered long barrows are a type of megalithic burial monument found in the British Isles in the Neolithic.
		Long barrows either contained wooden or stone burial structures beneath the barrow and the surviving megalithic stone in the latter means that they are the ones referred to by archaeologists as chambered.
		This distinction may have been more to do with the availability of local materials however than any cultural differences.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Chambered_long_barrow (246 words)

	Waylands Smithy Long Barrow
		Situated in a Sacred Grove of Beech trees, the Neolithic earth covered long barrow and passage chamber date back to at least 5,500 years ago.
		There were four gigantic sarsen stone megaliths that stood watch over the long entrance chamber, which lead to two opposing transept chambers and a terminal chamber.
		Archaeological excavations have found that the existing stone chambered, long barrow shaped mound was built about 3400 BCE upon the site of a smaller oval shaped timber chambered mound dating from around 3700 BCE.
	www.blessingscornucopia.com /Earth_Mysteries_Henges_Megaliths_Mounds_Stone_Circles_Sacred_Sites_Waylands_Smithy_Long_Barrow.htm (482 words)

	The Modern Antiquarian.com \| UK \| Nympsfield Long Barrow
		The barrow is slightly to the right of the entrance to the picnic area, and the car parking is on the left at around SO794013.
		No ice cream van in evidence today in the filthy weather, I soon realised that I had misread the Landranger as to where the barrow is. As you drive up the short entrance road to the car park, the barrow is on your right as you turn left into the car park proper.
		When the barrow and its mound were excavated by a Professor Buckman in 1862 and Mrs Clifford in 1937 they found the remains of at least 13 human skeletons as well as Neolithic pottery.
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /site/602 (942 words)

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