West Kennet Long Barrow

West Kennet Long Barrow is a dolmen in United Kingdom, Neolithic tomb or barrow in Wiltshire, England, UK. Pyramason catalogues it as PYR-037405 at 51.40860, -1.85104 (51°24'31.0"N 1°51'03.7"W).

Recorded heritage designations: scheduled monument.

There are 143 other catalogued sites within 5 km of it, 652 within 25 km and 1,789 within 50 km. That density is itself the finding: this is not an isolated monument but part of a worked landscape.

The record

What is around it

• West Kennet bell barrow, 160m north-west of West Kennet long barrow0.2 km
• Linear round barrow cemetery 200m ENE of West Kennett long barrow0.3 km
• West Kennett Farm palisaded enclosures0.6 km
• Site of an oval stone circle and part of an adjacent field system 700m SW of Wes0.8 km
• Silbury Hill0.9 km
• West Kennet Avenue and an earthwork bank east of West Kennett Farm1.1 km
• Round barrow cemetery and part of a field system 200m south of Beckhampton Penni1.2 km
• Bowl barrow 200m north of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemetery1.3 km
• Group of six round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery 400m north-east1.4 km
• Bowl barrow 40m north west of East Kennett long barrow forming part of a cemeter1.4 km

Further reading

English Wikipedia  ·  Wikidata Q541312