Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Information

SMR Number

SU06NE107

Site Name

Long Stones Longbarrow, Beckhampton

Grid Ref

SU08706914

Parish

Avebury

Photographs

Images for Avebury (if available)

District

Kennet

Site Type

Long Barrow

Period

Neolithic

Scheduled Monument

SM21734

X Y Grid Ref

408700, 169140

Altitude

160.02 metres

Geology

Lower Chalk

Description

Neolithic long barrow excavated between 1820 and 1850

Details

A)Mutilated long barrow opened by Merewether who found a secondary Late Bronze Age urn with burnt bones but no primary deposit. C)The pot is part of a Biconical Urn with Trevisker-like handles. B)Side ditches are clearly defined, each 24m wide and 0.6m deep. Now under pasture but its terminals have been ploughed.

World Heritage Site

Yes

Sources

X) D/SU0868/12 English Heritage

A) Victoria County History 1 1 137(17) 1957 Grinsell, L.V.

B) Ordnance Survey Fldwk 1973 1973 Ordnance Survey

X) Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute, Salisbury Vol 109, p232 1801 Merewether, J

X) Devizes Museum 210 Devizes Museum

X) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 79, p23(26)

X) Management of Monuments Within the Avebury World Heritage Site 1998 Wild, Priscilla for English Heritage

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