Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Information

SMR Number

SU06NE105

Site Name

South Street Long Barrow

Grid Ref

SU09026928

Parish

Avebury

Photographs

Images for Avebury (if available)

District

Kennet

Site Type

Long Barrow

Period

Neolithic

Scheduled Monument

SM21735

Finds

Animal bone; Antler; Human burial; Worked flint; Ceramics; Soil profile - buried; Environmental evidence - molluscs; Radio-carbon dating; Stone; Stone (building material)

X Y Grid Ref

409020, 169280

Altitude

205.74 metres

Geology

Lower Chalk

Description

Neolithic long barrow excavated between 1964 and 1967.

Details

A)Long barrow. Side ditches ploughed out. B)Excavations between 1964 & 1967 revealed a complete long barrow of complex construction. C)Visible as an unsurveyable ground swelling. D)Visible on an aerial photograph as an white mark (1998). D)Note by Priscilla Wild. E)A geophysical survey conducted in December 2000 identified the western end of the outer ditches. However, the response form the eastern end has not been completely recorded as Nash Road (South Street) has bisected the survey area. At the time of this survey Nash Road and its verges span an area of approximately 9m and the disturbance from the ferrous fences affects a strip up to 8m wide, thus impeding the location of the south-eastern ditch terminal.

World Heritage Site

Yes

Sources

D) D/SU0969/68/NMR 15621/16 English Heritage

A) Victoria County History 1 1 138(68) 1957 Grinsell, L.V.

B) Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Vol 45, p250-300 Ashbee Et Al Evans, J G; Smith, Dr I F

C) Ordnance Survey Fldwk 1973 1973 Ordnance Survey

D) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 62, p 124

D) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 79, p 23-4(28)

D) Managment of Monuments Within the Avebury World Heritage Site 1998 Wild, Priscilla for English Heritage

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