South Street Barrow

The South Street barrow is a Neolithic long barrow in the English county of Wiltshire, near Beckhampton [1]. It lies around 70 metres southeast of the cove of The Longstones and may therefore be connected with the Neolithic ritual landscape centred on Avebury [1]. The mound was about 43 metres long and 17m wide, but cultivation has spread the material and reduced the mound's height [1]. It was excavated between 1964 and 1966 by Paul Ashbee who found no evidence of burials beneath the barrow and conjectured that it was a kind of cenotaph [1]. He found that it had been built around a number of wicker partitions using alternate layers of white chalk and darker earth [1]. This material was probably excavated from flanking ditches surrounding the site [1].