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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Longstones Barrow
Country: England County: Wiltshire Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Marlborough  Nearest Village: Beckhampton
Map Ref: SU08706914
Latitude: 51.421207N  Longitude: 1.876271W
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
 5

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TheCaptain visited on 18th Sep 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Remains of a big longbarrow just to the north of Beckhampton roundabout, roughly in line with the Avebury western Avenue. I wonder how much this has been altered over the years, as the land around it is slightly raised making a much longer shape, perhaps double the remaining length. It also looks like the northeastern end has a horned courtyard entrance feature, but this is well within the yaised ground, and also looks too good to be original, as it is not slumped down enough to my eyes. Looking at historical records, and it is stated that "the mound has been severely mutilated and its terminals ploughed", and had been "much damaged by the digging chalk out of it and perhaps stones"

SumDoood visited on 4th Sep 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 It's a whopper. Higher, I guess, than the front end of West Kennet Long Barrow. At a glance from the road it might be mistaken for a modern pile of earth from road building, or similar construction. The aerial view in Bing's mapping shows a crop mark of sorts with squared off corners at NNE, ESE, SSW and WNW, BUT there is horse racing training going on nearby, although one wouldn't expect squared corners on such a circle?

graemefield visited on 2nd May 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4

TheCaptain visited on 4th Oct 1998 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Visit lots of ancient sites on a long off road cycle tour from Avebury to Windmill Hill, along the Wansdyke and back up Kennet Avenue



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 3.25 Access: 4

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by SumDoood : 040919: From the WSW. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Remains of a big longbarrow just to the north of Beckhampton roundabout, roughly in line with the Avebury western Avenue

From Pastscape:
"A Neolithic long barrow, Grinsell's Avebury 17, located immediately north of Beckhampton and southwest of the Longstones (SU 06 NE 56). A poorly recorded excavation was undertaken sometime prior to 1850. The only finds seem to have been a secondary cremation in a Biconical urn, accompanied by a bronze object, perhaps a dagger. Though plough damaged, the barrow is still extant as an earthwork mound 84 metres by 35 metres, and up to 6 metres high, flanked by side ditches 24 metres wide."


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Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by SumDoood : 040919: From the south. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by Bladup : Longstones Longbarrow (Vote or comment on this photo)

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by Bladup (Vote or comment on this photo)

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by Bladup : Longstones longbarrow, On top pointing at Windmil Hill though the trees (Vote or comment on this photo)

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by Bladup : Longstones Longbarrow, From this angle you can clearly see it was once far larger

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by Horatio : The Longstones Barrow as seen from the roundabout on the A361 at Beckhampton, a large barrow on private land, this possible being the best view from the south

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by marcgreenman : View of far side of the barrow, overgrown with grass as is the mound itself. Image copyright: marcgreenman (Marc Rhodes-Taylor), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by marcgreenman : View looking along the top of Beckhampton long barrow.

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by marcgreenman : View of far side of the barrow, overgrown with grass as is the mound itself.

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by marcgreenman : View over the top of Beckhampton long barrow.

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by TheCaptain : Remains of a big longbarrow just to the north of Beckhampton roundabout, roughly in line with the Avebury western Avenue.

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by TheCaptain : Remains of a big longbarrow just to the north of Beckhampton roundabout, roughly in line with the Avebury western Avenue. I wonder how much this has been altered over the years, as the land around it is slightly raised making a much longer shape, perhaps double the remaining length. Looking at historical records, it is stated that "the mound has been severely mutilated and its terminals plou...

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by TheCaptain : Remains of a big longbarrow just to the north of Beckhampton roundabout, roughly in line with the Avebury western Avenue. I wonder how much this has been altered over the years, as the land around it is slightly raised making a much longer shape, perhaps double the remaining length. It also looks like the northeastern end has a horned courtyard entrance feature, but this is well within the yaised ...

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by TheCaptain : It looks like the northeastern end has a horned courtyard entrance feature, but looks too good to be original, as it is not slumped down enough to my eyes. Looking at historical records, and it is stated that "the mound has been severely mutilated and its terminals ploughed", and had been "much damaged by the digging chalk out of it and perhaps stones"

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by SumDoood : This was once a big barrow. From the top looking ENE. The Long Stones are in the field beyond the gap in the trees.

Longstones Barrow
Longstones Barrow submitted by SumDoood : 040919: From the ENE.

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Re: Longstones Barrow by marcgreenman on Sunday, 27 September 2020
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beckhampton long barrow is extremely accessible, surprisingly so it is right next to the beckhampton roundabout. i was really surprised by the false entrance. this is a really unusual feature which i have never noticed on any other barrow so far. i wonder why it was made like this. was there supposed to be an entrance to the barrow at one time?
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    Re: Longstones Barrow by TheCaptain on Sunday, 27 September 2020
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    Reading the historical records, it is stated that "the mound has been severely mutilated and its terminals ploughed", and had been "much damaged by the digging chalk out of it and perhaps stones"
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Re: Longstones Barrow by davidmorgan on Saturday, 02 March 2013
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