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Folly Wood long barrow is a Neolithic communal burial monument located in Gloucestershire, England. The site consists of an earthen mound characteristic of the long barrow tradition of the fourth and third millennia BCE, constructed during the early Neolithic period when such monuments served as focal points for ritual burial and community identity. Like other long barrows of the Cotswold-Severn group, it would have contained a stone or timber burial chamber within its elongated mound structure. The monument remains a significant archaeological record of Neolithic funerary practices and settlement patterns in the Severn Valley region.
Folly Wood long barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002109. View the official record →
Folly Wood long barrow is a Neolithic communal burial monument located in Gloucestershire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002109.
Folly Wood long barrow is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002109.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Blackquarries Hill long barrow (3.7 km), Kingswood Abbey gate (5.5 km), Tresham Farbarrow round barrows (7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Folly Wood long barrow's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Folly Wood long barrow stands on Lias Group, bedrock that formed in the Aalenian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone.