Chestnuts Long Barrow

Chestnuts Long Barrow, also known as Stony Warren or Long Warren, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Addington in the south-eastern English county of Kent [1]. The long barrow was built on land previously inhabited in the Mesolithic period [1]. It consisted of a sub-rectangular earthen tumulus, estimated to have been 15 metres in length, with a chamber built from sarsen megaliths on its eastern end [1]. Both inhumed and cremated human remains were placed within this chamber during the Neolithic period, representing at least nine or ten individuals [1]. These remains were found alongside pottery sherds, stone arrow heads, and a clay pendant [1]. In the 4th century AD, a Romano-British hut was erected next to the long barrow [1]. In the 12th or 13th century, the chamber was dug into and heavily damaged, either by treasure hunters or iconoclastic Christians [1]. The ruin attracted the interest of antiquarians in the 18th and 19th centuries, while archaeological excavation took place in 1957, followed by limited reconstruction [1].