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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.
Wiltshire farmer Tim Daw, 52, is building mound in field near Marlborough; It will have chambers full of shelves where urns of ashes will be placed; ... Lanhill Long Barrow, ...
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 ...
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 ...