Wychwood
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Wychwood or Wychwood Forest is a 501.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Witney in Oxfordshire. It is also a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 1, and an area of 263.
Forest Trail, Wychwood Forest geograph.org.uk 1440049
Crowds at a Wychwood Fair
Red leather book spine of Cornbury and the Forest of Wychwood by Vernon J. Watney
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 s
Wychwood
…It is also a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 1, and an area of 263.4 hectares (651 acres) is a national nature reserve The site contains a long barrow dating to the Neolithic period, which is a scheduled monument. In past centuries the forest covered a much larger area, since cleared in favour of…
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