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Julliberrie's Grave Long Barrow

England
List entry 1013000
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1013000
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.34 hectares
Grid reference
TR 07746 53239
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Julliberrie's Grave Long Barrow is a Neolithic communal burial monument located near Chilham in Kent, England. The barrow is aligned broadly east to west and survives as an earthwork mound, representing a form of funerary architecture characteristic of the early Neolithic period, roughly 4000 to 3000 BCE. The site has significance as evidence of organised burial practice and territorial settlement in prehistoric Kent, reflecting the cultural practices of early farming communities who inhabited the region. The monument's survival as an upstanding earthwork contributes to the archaeological understanding of Neolithic burial customs and settlement patterns in south-eastern England.

Julliberrie's Grave Long Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013000. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Julliberrie's Grave Long Barrow?

Julliberrie's Grave Long Barrow is a Neolithic communal burial monument located near Chilham in Kent, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013000.

Who is responsible for protecting Julliberrie's Grave Long Barrow?

Julliberrie's Grave 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 1013000.

What other scheduled monuments are near Julliberrie's Grave Long Barrow?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow off Pennypot Lane, one of six in Eggringe Wood (3.5 km), Bowl barrow, the southernmost of six in Eggringe Wood (3.9 km), Bowl barrow 400m north-east of Buckholt Farm in Mounts Wood (4 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Bowl barrow off Pennypot Lane, one of six in Eggringe Wood
3.5 km
Bowl barrow, the southernmost of six in Eggringe Wood
3.9 km
Bowl barrow 400m north-east of Buckholt Farm in Mounts Wood
4 km
Saucer Barrow in Warren Wood
4.7 km
Long Barrow SE of Jackets Field
5.7 km
Hlaew in Juniper Wood
6.3 km
The medieval college of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye
6.8 km
Medieval undercroft, Bridge Street, Wye
7 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Julliberrie's Grave Long Barrow

Julliberrie's Grave Long Barrow stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

The wider landscape

Around Julliberrie's Grave Long Barrow

CanterburyRoman town · ~5.2 milesRochesterRoman town · ~22.8 miles
Domesday entry for Chilham, Kent →
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