Lugbury Long Barrow

Lugbury Long Barrow is a prehistoric long barrow in Wiltshire, England, about 0.6 miles east of Nettleton and about 1 mile north-west of Castle Combe [1]. The monument is one of many long barrows in Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire [1]. Dating from the early to middle Neolithic periods, they are the burial places of early farming communities [1]. The mound, on level ground, is orientated west–east [1]. The size of the mound before excavation is thought to have been about 209 by 78 feet [1]. Towards the eastern end are the remains of a chamber: a capstone, about 12 by 6 feet, leaning against two upright stones (all of limestone), which formed the false entrance portal to the mound [1]. George Scrope excavated the site from 1854 to 1855, and a report was written by John Thurnam [1]. Four burial chambers were found, three of which contained a total of twenty-six skeletons of adults and children of both sexes [1].