West Kennet Long Barrow

The West Kennet Long Barrow, also known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire [1]. Built out of earth, local sarsen megaliths, and oolitic limestone imported from the Cotswolds, the long barrow consisted of a sub-rectangular earthen tumulus enclosed by kerb-stones [1]. Human bones were placed within the chamber, probably between 3670 and 3635 BC, representing a mixture of men, women, children, and adults [1]. In the Late Neolithic, the entrance to the long barrow was blocked up with the addition of large sarsen boulders [1]. The ruin attracted the interest of antiquarians in the 17th century, while archaeological excavation took place in 1859 and again in 1955-1956, after which it underwent reconstruction [1]. West Kennet Long Barrow is 100 metres long and 20 metres wide [1].