West Kennet Long Barrow
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The West Kennet Long Barrow, also known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Probably constructed in the thirty-seventh century BC, during Britain's Early Neolithic period, today it survives in a partially reconstructed state.
West Kennet Long Barrow
The stones at the entrance to the chamber in West Kennet Long Barrow
The barrow of West Kennet Long Barrow
The chamber of West Kennet Long Barrow
Long barrow
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Long barrows are a style of monument constructed across Western Europe in the fifth and fourth millennia BCE, during the Early Neolithic period. Typically constructed from earth and either timber or stone, those using the latter material represent the oldest widespread tradition of stone construction in the world. Around 40,000 long barrows survive today.
View of Wayland's Smithy Long Barrow, a long barrow near Uffington in Oxfordshire
In cases such as Kit's Coty House, Kent, the earthen mound of a long barrow has been worn away by the weather or removed, exposing a stone chamber within. In this case, the surviving chamber represents a trilithon that is commonly called a dolmen.
Jacket's Field Long Barrow, one of the earthen long barrows that are clustered around the River Stour in Kent.
The Grønsalen Barrow on the Danish island of Møn