Adam's Grave

Adam's Grave was a Neolithic long barrow near Alton Barnes in Wiltshire, southwest England [1]. The barrow is considered to be of the Severn-Cotswold tomb type [1]. These generally consist of long, precisely built trapezoidal earth mounds covering burial chambers, thus they are a type of chambered long barrow [1]. The chamber, made of sarsen stones, contained partial human skeletons [1]. An arrowhead was also recovered [1]. There is a breast-shaped hill on the spot, with the remains of the barrow being 70 metres long and around 7 metres high with ditches on either side [1]. It was partially excavated by John Thurnam in 1860 [1]. In the Anglo-Saxon period, the site was known as "Woden's Barrow" and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records two battles, in 592 and 715, thought to have taken place at the site [1].