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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lambourn Long Barrow
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.6 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Berkshire Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Swindon  Nearest Village: Upper Lambourn
Map Ref: SU32328338  Landranger Map Number: 174
Latitude: 51.548392N  Longitude: 1.535292W
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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Lambourn Long Barrow
Lambourn Long Barrow submitted by hamish : This could possibly be a portal stone for the Barrow. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This long barrow is dated to be one of the earliest in Britain, however little of it remains.

The mound is extant, 70m by 18m altough difficult to see its full extent. The barrows is half covered in very tall trees at the end of a small wood. At the western end is a large stone 1m x 1m while at the eastern end is a pile of stones which may have formed some of the barrows structure. Halfway along the southern side is a stone 0.5x x 0.5m. The barrow should be considered in the context of the nineteen round barrows which form the extended Lambourn Barrow Cemetery which are nearby.

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Lambourn Long Barrow
Lambourn Long Barrow submitted by Bladup : A closeup of the big stone on Lambourn Longbarrow. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lambourn Long Barrow
Lambourn Long Barrow submitted by NDM : Tucked away (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lambourn Long Barrow
Lambourn Long Barrow submitted by DrewParsons : The track running across the western end of the barrow. April 2015. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lambourn Long Barrow
Lambourn Long Barrow submitted by DrewParsons : The large stone by the side of the track across the western end of the barrow. April 2015 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lambourn Long Barrow
Lambourn Long Barrow submitted by Bladup : Holed stone on the side [kerbing?] of Lambourn Longbarrow. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lambourn Long Barrow
Lambourn Long Barrow submitted by Bladup : The big stone on Lambourn Longbarrow.

Lambourn Long Barrow
Lambourn Long Barrow submitted by twentytrees : The large stone at the eastern end of the barrow.

Lambourn Long Barrow
Lambourn Long Barrow submitted by twentytrees : This long barrow is dated to be the oldest in Britain. Little of it remains however. The mound is extant, 70m by 18m altough difficult to see its full extent. The barrows is half covered in very tall trees at the end of a small wood. At the western end is a large stone 1m x 1m while at the eastern end is a pile of stones which may have formed some of the barrows structure. Halfway along the southe...

Lambourn Long Barrow
Lambourn Long Barrow submitted by hamish : This looks more like a Long Barrow.

Lambourn Long Barrow
Lambourn Long Barrow submitted by hamish : This is what I found just inside the woods. I think this is it.

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Re: Lambourn Long Barrow by Zooks777 on Monday, 16 August 2021
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AMS dates from the Lambourn long barrow - 3760-3645 cal BC by Andy B on Monday, 02 March 2015
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New AMS dates from the Lambourn long barrow and the question of the earliest Neolithic in southern England: repacking the Neolithic package? by Rick Schulting, 2000

This paper reassesses the chronological status of the Lambourn long barrow, which has provided one of the earliest dates from a mortuary monument in Britain. Three new AMS dates on short-lived material indicate that the construction and primary use phase of the monument lies within the period 3760–3645 cal BC, and that the earlier estimate obtained on charcoal (4555–3780 cal BC) is likely subject to the old wood effect, or is residual.

This is followed by a consideration of the implications of the new dates in the context of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, the timing of which remains poorly understood. It is argued that the evidence is increasingly pointing to a more rapid neolithization process, and that this had implications for the mechanisms involved.

https://www.academia.edu/11166332/New_AMS_dates_from_the_Lambourn_long_barrow_and_the_question_of_the_earliest_Neolithic_in_southern_England_repacking_the_Neolithic_package
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Re: Lambourn Long Barrow by coldrum on Friday, 01 January 2010
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Pastscape entry:

"Neolithic Long barrow discovered by L.V. Grinsell on Westcot Down. Excavations were carried out on the barrow by J.J. Wymer in 1964. A crouched burial and a later internment were found in a chamber, which consisted of a crude cist-like arrangement of sarsans, at the east end of the barrow. The side ditches produced Windmill Hill sherds below primary silt. Above the primary silt, but below the rapid silting of the south ditch, a broken human skull cap, burnt stones, sherds and animal bones were found. Among the flint implements found during the excavations were leaf shaped, petit tranchet and barbed and tanged arrowheads as well as flakes, scrapers, borers and a core. The long barrow is partially visible as cropmarks of a long mound surrounded by a ditch, on aerial photographs. The barrow appeared not to have been ploughed completely flat."

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=229357
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