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	West Kennet Long Barrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The West Kennet Long Barrow is a Neolithic tomb or barrow, situated on a prominent chalk ridge, near Silbury Hill, one-and-a-half miles south of Avebury in Wiltshire.
		Archaeologists classify it as a chambered long barrow and one of the Severn-Cotswold tombs.
		The stone burial chambers are located at one end of one of the longest barrows in Britain at 100 m: in total it is estimated that 15,700 manhours were expended in its construction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Kennet_Long_Barrow (513 words)

	Long barrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A long barrow is a prehistoric monument dating to the Neolithic period.
		Archaeological excavation indicated that the construction of the earth barrow was the last phase in a complex sequence connected with the ritual inhumation of the dead that took place in British society between around 4000 and 2400 BC.
		It has been conjectured that long barrows are derived from the timber long houses built by the continental Neolithic European Linearbandkeramic culture which was contemporary with the British Mesolithic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_barrow (695 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Long barrow
		Examples of long barrows include Julliberrie's Grave in Kent, Hazelton North in Gloucestershire, Fussell's Lodge and West Kennet Long Barrow in Wiltshire, Foulmere Fen long barrow in Cambridgeshire and Street House near Loftus in West Yorkshire.
		This crossover between barrows as entrances to the realm of faerie and the dead is a curious one, which seems to indicate a strong link between faeries and the dead, even that, in certain circumstances, the dead become faeries as an evolutionary cycle(15).
		Animal bones have been found in barrows such as Hetty Pegler's Tump (Uley tumulus) in Gloucestershire, where the jaw bones of wild boars have been discovered, leading to speculation that the animal was used as a family totem, a psychopomp, bridging the gap between the worlds(21).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Long-barrow (926 words)

	Stones of England - West Kennet long barrow
		This impressive Neolithic tomb, situated on a prominent chalk ridge near Silbury Hill and not far from Avebury, is one the largest chambered long barrows in Britain.
		West Kennet is more than 100m (320ft) long and 2.4m (8ft) high and at the left end is a row of large, upright sarsen stones which were repositioned in 1956.
		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.stonepages.com /england/westkennet.html (323 words)

	West Kennet Long Barrow
		West Kennet Long Barrow is one of the largest and most impressive Neolithic graves in Britain.
		The barrow had a long period of use but was finally sealed by the huge sarcen stones that can now be seen at its entrance.
		According to folklore the barrow is visited by a ghostly white figure with a white red-eared hound on Midsummer's day.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /england/wiltshire/westken.html (176 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)

	West Kennet - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about West Kennet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Neolithic (New Stone Age) long barrow or burial mound near Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, England.
		The barrow, which appears to have followed a careful plan, is remarkably intact.
		The chambers contained many cremated and inhumed bones, suggesting that the barrow was intended for repeated use and may have functioned as a collective burial place or a chieftain's family vault.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /West+Kennet (236 words)

	West Kennet Long Barrow
		West Kennet Long Barrow is one of the many prehistoric monuments that are part of the Avebury complex of Neolithic sites.
		These large stones, and the other hefty sarcen boulders used in the barrows construction, were brought from the nearby downs, while the smaller stones seem to have been selected and brought from a location over 30 miles away.
		There is a slim possibility that this tradition is a folk memory of a ritual event or at least a time thought to have been significant in the use of the barrow.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /majorsites/aa/westkennet_longbarrow.html (572 words)

	Secrets of the Goddess Uncovered at West Kennet Long Barrow by Terence Meaden
		West Kennet Long Barrow—near Avebury and Swallowhead Spring and in sight of Silbury Hill—is one of Britain's best-known chambered monuments.
		This feature is a long vertical hollow 5 feet 3 inches (160 cm) long and 20 inches (50 cm) wide at its maximum, and it is the sixth prominent Neolithic yoni that I have found on megaliths in the Avebury region.
		Because the barrow faces east, the order in which the sunlight falls first on the Skull Stone before reaching the Spring Goddess Head shows that the transition from Winter Goddess to Spring Goddess was planned into the mural sequence, proof that the ancient Britons were celebrating the Rites of Spring as early as 3600 BCE.
	www.newagetravel.com /secrets-goddess-uncovered-west-kennet.shtml (1049 words)

	West Kennet Longbarrow
		West Kennet is one of the largest chambered long barrows in Britain and is more than 320 ft long and 8ft high, with a row of large, upright sarsen stones at the left end marking the entrance.
		West Kennet was constructed about 3,600 BC, some 400 years before the first stage of Stonehenge.
		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.
	littlefeathercentreuk.5u.com /kennet1.html (392 words)

	Long barrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A subgroup of chambered long barrow s contain stone burial chambers, constructed from slabs, which appears to come from a different tradition.
		The barrow was often far larger than the original mortuary enclosure and used material excavated from an encircling ditch.
		Examples of long barrows include Hazelton North in Gloucestershire, Fussell's Lodge and West Kennet Long Barrow in Wiltshire, Foulmere Fen long barrow in Cambridgeshire, Coldrum Stones in Kent and Street House near Loftus in West Yorkshire.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Long_barrow.html (773 words)

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		The West Kennet long barrow (SU 104 677) lies on well drained calcareous silty soils of the Andover 1 association (Soil Survey of England and Wales 1983) developed over Upper and Middle Chalk (Institute of Geological Sciences 1974).
		It would appear that both ditches are ~100m long with the outer edge ~15m out from the barrow (not the fenced off area as this is not central to the barrow).
		In either case it is a temptation to speculate that it may be related to the long barrow in some way, perhaps as a subsidiary structure.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /reports/west_kennet (1239 words)

	Prehistoric.org.uk - West Kennet - Long Barrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		West Kennet stands on the top of a hill to the south of the A4 between Marlborough and Beckhampton.
		Pass through the village of West Kennet and just before you reach the huge mound of Silbury Hill there is a car park to the left of the road.
		It is around 100 metres long and has the typical "lozenge" shape of the Neolithic long barrow.
	www.prehistoric.org.uk /wiltshire/west_kennet.html (443 words)

	Earth Mysteries: The West Kennet Long Barrow, Wiltshire
		Kennet Long Barrow is situated on a ridge one-and-a-half miles south of Avebury in Wiltshire.
		The barrow was dug into in in 1859, and properly excavated in 1955-56.
		It originally consisted of a trapezoid mound 330 feet long formed of a core of sarsen boulders and a capping of chalk rubble from two flanking quarry ditches.
	www.britannia.com /wonder/kennet.html (325 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)

	West Kennet Long Barrow - archaeological finds
		West Kennet Long barrow is more than 100mlong and 2.4m high and at one end is a row of large, upright sarsen stones.
		In 1859 John Thurnham excavated 4 and a half metres of the West burial chamber of West Kennett Long Barrow.
		In 1955 the large-scale excavation of West Kennett Long Barrow by Piggot and Atkinson discovered that there were actually 4 further chambers (SW, SE, NW, NE), which had been lying undisturbed since the sealing of the barrow around 3550BP.
	www.newarchaeology.com /articles/westkennet1.php (549 words)

	Weird Wiltshire - Stone Formations - West Kennet Long Barrow
		Second only to East Kennet Barrow in length, the structure is 100 metres long and located a quarter of a mile from Silbury Hill.
		Although, the barrow had a long period of use, it was finally sealed by the huge sarsen stones that can now be seen at its entrance.
		It is possible to enter the chamber of the barrow, and from the top of the mound there are good views of Silbury, the East Kennet Barrow, the Sanctuary and Windmill Hill.
	www.weirdwiltshire.co.uk /stones/barrow.html (433 words)

	CONNECTORS TRAVELOG WEST KENNET LONG BARROW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This Long Barrow is the longest of its kind, and has around two thousand cubic metres of chalk within its mound.
		The chamber itself is only one sixth the length of the entire Barrow, and in 2000BC its was monumentally sealed by filling each of the burial chambers with chalk and earth, and even sealing the cracks between the massive Sarson entrance stones with more earth and stone rubble.
		West Kennet Long Barrow could have indicated an important religious time for the local people and perhaps a political one as well.
	www.cropcircleconnector.com /Travelogue/westkennettlongbarrowl99.html (268 words)

	English Prehistoric Sites - West Kennet Long Barrow
		A long barrow is one of several different types of burial mound used through pre-history, and generally consists of a long earthen mound containing a passage.
		The long barrow at West Kennet, which is located about 1.5 miles (2.4km) from Avebury Circle, extends to some 330ft (100m), and is one of the largest, best-preserved Neolithic burial chambers in Britain.
		West Kennet Long Barrow was constructed around a core of Sarsen stones and then covered in a layer of flint and chalk rubble, extracted from two flanking ditches that have now been backfilled.
	www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /early%20ages/west%20kennett.htm (356 words)

	Adrian The Ageing Hippy's Photos Of West Kennet Long Barrow
		, 1000 yards SW of the centre of West Kennet in Wiltshire.
		Excavations have revealed that the core of the mound was built of large sarsen boulders, with a kerb of sarsens running around the edge of the mound.
		About 30 adults and children were buried in the long barrow early in the Neolithic period...
	www.adrian.smith.clara.net /west_kennet.html (286 words)

	The undreamed region - Barrows in folklore and archaeology
		In mythic tradition as already stated barrows were considered magical places, entrances to the realm of the goddess, the entrance seen by many as symbolising the vagina of the goddess and the interior her womb.
		This cross over between barrows as entrances to the realm of faerie and the dead is a curious one, which seems to indicate a strong link between faeries and the dead, even that in certain circumstances the dead become faeries as an evolutionary cycle (12).
		Barrows are a rich source of knowledge for those with the wisdom to listen, and the urge to learn.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/undream.htm (2869 words)

	Earth Mysteries: Belas Knap Long Barrow
		Like all the other seventy or so known long barrows in the county, it is located on the limestone uplands of the Cotswolds.
		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.
		When the original lintel stone was removed during excavations in 1863-5, among the rubble forming the blocking of the false entrance were found the skeletal remains of five children aged between 6 months and 8 years, the skull of a young adult male, horse and pig bones, plus fragments of pottery and serrated flint blade.
	www.britannia.com /wonder/belas.html (704 words)

	West kennet long barrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/west_kennet_long_barrow (194 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.
		While small burial mounds or barrows are numerous in Britain, there are only 260 long barrows like that at West Kennet in Britain and the county of Wiltshire alone contains 148 of them.
		The long barrow is on the A4 between Marlborough and Calne in Wiltshire.
	beehive.thisisbristol.com /default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=7612&PageID=40599 (409 words)

	Long barrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Archaeological excavation indicated that the construction of the earth barrow was the last phase in a complex sequenceconnected with the ritual inhumation of the dead between 4000 and around 2400 BC.
		It has been conjectured that long barrows are derived from the timber longhouses built by the continental Neolithic European Linearbandkeramic culture which was contemporary with the British Mesolithic.
		Examples of long barrows include Hazelton North in Gloucestershire, Fussell's Lodge and West Kennet Long Barrow in Wiltshire, FoulmereFen long barrow in Cambridgeshire, Coldrum Stones in Kent and Street House near Loftus in West Yorkshire.
	www.therfcc.org /long-barrow-12050.html (550 words)

	wk lbarrow
		The West Kennet Long Barrow is situated on the skyline to the south of Silbury Hill.
		Although the first serious research on the barrow was done by John Thurnham in 1859 it is the excavations and restoration work carried out by Stuart Piggott and Richard Atkinson during 1955-56 that has resulted in what we see to-day.
		It is now accepted that long barrows were more than just tombs and were almost certainly the focus of other rituals that were important to the society who built them.
	www.avebury-web.co.uk /wk_lbarrow.html (539 words)

	The Official Graham Hancock Website: Forum
		West Kennet long barrow is laid out East – West along its long axis.
		A bearing of East Kennet long barrow to the centre of Avebury is also pointing 23 degrees west of north.
		West Kennet long barrow, Silbury hill and Windmill hill are three points on the same line.
	www.grahamhancock.com /forum/WellsSF1.php?p=4 (1147 words)

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