Hazleton Long Barrows

Hazleton long barrows are a pair of Neolithic chambered tombs located close to Hazleton village in Gloucestershire [1]. Part of the Cotswold-Severn group of long barrows, the barrows date back to approximately 3700-3600 BCE [1]. Hazleton North underwent a major and total archaeological excavation between 1979 and 1982 [1]. Results of the excavation offered direct evidence of kinship-based burial practices, revealing one of the earliest-known family trees from DNA analysis [1]. Hazleton long barrows consist of two separate cairns: Hazleton North Cairn and Hazleton South Cairn [1]. The North Cairn was the better-preserved of the two [1]. It was a trapezoidal earthwork 63 metres in length and with a maximum width of 22 metres [1]. Hazleton North contained two burial chambers, the south chamber and the north chamber, which were both in a semi-collapsed condition [1].