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The long barrow contains four large chambers, each housing 55 niches, which are each able to hold four or five urns. A smaller "secret" chamber is able to house single urns in smaller niches.
West Kennet Long Barrow, Avebury, Wiltshire. One of the largest and most accessible Neolithic chambered tombs with wonderful views over Silbury Hill and the surrounding countryside. Constructed in ...
A farmer in All Cannings, Wiltshire claims his burial chamber (pictured) will be ready by the summer. Tim Daw's long barrow mound can hold 1000s of people.
The winter solstice is celebrated at the first "Neolithic" long barrow to be built in the UK for 5,500 years.
An ancient house of the dead has been unearthed near Stonehenge. The Neolithic burial chamber, which likely dates to approximately 5,600 to 5,700 years ago, would have been an earthen structure ...
Work resumes on Wiltshire's new long-barrow There have been delays to the construction of the first stone-age style burial chamber to be built in 5000 years. Wiltshire landowner Tim Daw got ...
The Soulton Long Barrow in Shropshire is only the third of its kind to be opened in modern times as an ancient space-saving solution to the lack of burial space in Britain.
The long barrow contains four large chambers, each housing 55 niches, which are each able to hold four or five urns. A smaller "secret" chamber is able to house single urns in smaller niches.
The winter solstice is celebrated at the first "Neolithic" long barrow to be built in the UK for 5,500 years.
A nearly 6,000-year-old long barrow, or house of the dead, has been unearthed in the same region that houses Stonehenge.
And one tree-crowned long barrow Stretched like a sow that has brought forth her farrow Hides a king’s bones Lying like broken sticks among the stones. — Andrew Young, ‘Wiltshire Downs’ Driving south ...