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<< Our Photo Pages >> Lanhill - Long Barrow in England in Wiltshire

Submitted by Thorgrim on Thursday, 16 October 2003  Page Views: 18100

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lanhill Alternative Name: Hubba's Low
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 6.9 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Wiltshire Type: Long Barrow

Map Ref: ST87737471  Landranger Map Number: 173
Latitude: 51.471219N  Longitude: 2.178043W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Phillwhite visited on 16th Sep 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Access: 3 Lovely little spot park quarter of a mile down the road in the layby and walked through the top of the field. The traffic on the road is fast! Had to hop over a barbed wire fency but it's a lovely spot worth the effort.

4clydesdale7 visited on 28th Aug 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Easy to visit/park - worth a visit - Wiltshire's answer to Hetty Pegler's Tump - you can enter the chamber

SolarMegalith visited on 23rd Jun 2010 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4

graemefield visited on 1st Jan 2008 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3

TheCaptain visited on 13th Apr 2004 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4 This very nice long barrow, which lies on an east west axis, is in a field just to the south of the A420 a couple of miles east of Chippenham. The remains of the barrow still seem largely intact, and it is several metres high along its central axis. At the centre of the southern side is a rock lined chamber, about 2½ m in length by 1½ metres in width, 1m height, which has obviously been restored, as the roof is now supported on steel bars. The opening to the chamber has a curved, dry stone walled forecourt, and there is a blocking stone across the opening. Apparently, other chambers were found along the northern side of the barrow, and the remains of many skeletons were found in them.

SandyG visited on 22nd Jan 1991 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5

lucasn visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

coin hamish have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.29 Ambience: 3.83 Access: 3.86

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Lanhill submitted by Thorgrim : The surviving burial chamber on the south side of the Lanhill long barrow. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Lanhill long barrow is behind a hedgerow to the south of the A420 just outside Chippenham, (ST 877747). Much damaged when a false entrance was removed in 1909, but it is still 56m long and nearly 4m high. There were three burial chambers, but only one on the south side survives.
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Lanhill submitted by howe : Lanhill: Closeup of the entrance and interior of the south chamber in 1972 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lanhill submitted by howe : The south side of Lanhill in 1972 showing the surviving chamber and probable reconstructed external dry stone walling (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lanhill submitted by Postman : So very pretty, the tranquility was almost overpowering. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lanhill submitted by coin : Inside the burial chamber. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lanhill submitted by coin : The long barrow from the distance. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lanhill submitted by Postman : Inside looking out

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Lanhill submitted by Bladup : Lanhill chambered longbarrow.

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Lanhill submitted by SolarMegalith : Entrance to the only preserved chamber of the long barrow (photo taken on June 2010).

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Lanhill submitted by SolarMegalith : Lanhill Long Barrow - view from the SE (photo taken on June 2010).

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Lanhill submitted by graemefield : Lanhill long barrow in the snow. February 11th 2009. (1 comment)

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Lanhill submitted by graemefield : Lanhill longbarrow in the snow 11th February 2009.

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Lanhill submitted by thecaptain : Lanhill, Chambered Tomb, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, ST877747 At the centre of the southern side is a rock lined chamber, about 2½ m in length by 1½ metres in width, which has obviously been restored, as the roof is now supported on steel bars. The opening to the chamber has a curved, dry stone walled forecourt, and there is a blocking stone across the opening.

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Lanhill submitted by Postman : Lanhill longbarrow

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Lanhill submitted by Postman : Spring very nearly sneaked past me without my noticing.

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Lanhill submitted by Postman : There were two chambers, the other one has been destroyed.

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Lanhill submitted by Postman : Outside looking in.

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Lanhill submitted by Postman : It's got a bit of a Breton feel to it.

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Lanhill submitted by Postman : Enter the field and turn right, this is what you'll see.

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Lanhill submitted by SandyG : View of the mound from south west.

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Lanhill submitted by SandyG : Chamber entrance. View from south in 1991.

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Lanhill submitted by tjhavenith : A poster titled "Reconstruction of Lanhill Long barrow", dated 1963 and on display at Chippenham Museum, Wiltshire. Along with the reconstruction, the diagram details when parts of the long barrow were destroyed or quarried away. There was a lot of reflection, so I have edited the image to make the poster as clear as possible.

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Lanhill submitted by tjhavenith : The Lanhill barrow as seen from the parking place, July 2017.

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Lanhill submitted by Bladup : Looking out of the chamber at Lanhill.

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Lanhill submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The Eastern end of the Barrow from the NW

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Re: Lanhill by Anonymous on Tuesday, 11 July 2023
I WENT THERE IN MARCH AND JUNE THIS YEAR WITH MY DOG JEFF AND TUNED INTO MOTHER EARTH''S NATURAL ENERGY. ANDY THE WITCHYMAN
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Re: Lanhill by Anonymous on Tuesday, 22 November 2022
I go to lanhill longbarrow with my dog and find it a very sacred place to tune into mother earth. the witchyman
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Re: Lanhill by Anonymous on Thursday, 17 March 2022
I visited this long barrow 35 years , i remember it well, a very powerful place.

I remember meeting a local there who told me that some years previous work was being done on the road nearby and the night Watchmen refused to stay there overnight after the first night as they heard strange , otherworldly noises all night!

I would like to return there one day.
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Re: Lanhill by Zooks777 on Monday, 16 August 2021
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Excellent example on the Environment Agency lidar (grey icon next to that for CamRA)
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Re: Lanhill by Anonymous on Thursday, 28 December 2017
The Goblin. There was a goblin who lived in a barrow, he came out at night the colour of a marrow, looking for food & on the local farmer he played tricks just for kicks, he laughed & danced but up at the sky he glanced, near sunrise, time to go back home before he''s caught & dies. written by Andrew Williams. on the 27/12/17/.
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Re: Lanhill by Anonymous on Sunday, 24 September 2017
Back in 2009 on one of my visits to lanhill long barrow I had a strange shamanic experience when I went into a dream like state where I found it difficult to move & felt pinned to the ground by some energy force from the earth, I could hear voices nearby but there was no one there. The sky seemed to go darker even though it was bright sunny day, it became a pleasant feeling after feeling strange. It was as if time had stood still for a short time even though it seemed longer.

I reached for a drink as I felt dehydrated & slowly the sensation faded away & I was back, although I hadn''t moved from the same spot I had travelled spiritually in this timeless ancient site of our ancestors.

Andrew Williams- stage name thewitchyman.
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Re: Lanhill by Anonymous on Thursday, 25 February 2016
I go to lanhill longbarrow several times a year and find it a very sacred place and haven. I either cycle out there or go by bus with my collie dog. I was interviewed there for a channel 5 programme which was screened in 2015 three times. I also made a short film about mystical places in the west country which included lanhill longbarrow, which I showed at the cube cinema, bristol.
andy stage name-thewitchyman.
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    Re: Lanhill by Andy B on Thursday, 25 February 2016
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    Thanks Andy, that's interesting. What was the Channel 5 programme? (It might still be on catch-up viewing)
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      Re: Lanhill by Anonymous on Saturday, 05 March 2016
      hi andy, the programme I took part in was called 'oaps behaving badly'. Fun title. I'm not a pensioner but qualified for the programme on channel 5 as I was 60, cheers andy-thewitchyman.
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Re: Lanhill by graemefield on Monday, 13 April 2009
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Lanhill longbarrow on youtube:

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Re: Lanhill by TheCaptain on Friday, 16 April 2004
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I have probably driven within yards past this chambered barrow several hundred times and didnt know of its existence until recently. Amazing what a thick hedge can obscure !

This very nice long barrow, which lies on an east west axis, is in a field just to the south of the A420 a couple of miles east of Chippenham. The remains of the barrow seem largely intact, and it is several metres high along its central axis. At the centre of the southern side is a rock lined chamber, about 2½ m in length by 1½ metres in width, 1m height, which has obviously been restored, as the roof is now supported on steel bars. The opening to the chamber has a curved, dry stone walled forecourt, and there is a blocking stone across the opening. Apparently, other chambers were found along the northern side of the barrow, and the remains of many skeletons were found in them.
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    Re: Lanhill by AngieLake on Wednesday, 08 March 2006
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    I think TheCaptain means it is a couple of miles 'west' of Chippenham. (I'm always getting my east and west muddled too!) Recently found that my gran came from a village near there, so may get to explore area in summer!
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      Re: Lanhill by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 08 March 2006
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      Ooops, indeed I do mean west of Chippenham. Well spotted Angie (its only been her 2 years without being spotted!)
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        Re: Lanhill by 4clydesdale7 on Saturday, 08 September 2012
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        Problems like these have only occurred since the famous BBC comment upon the fall of the Berlin Wall - 'The West became East and the East became West' - I am so glad others have to pause and think about this - now which is NW and which SE or is it SSW? Oh! I give up!!!! It should be easier if I turn the Map upside down - now where is North? I have now got a headache
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