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Long barrow 400m north-west of Fox Covert is a Neolithic communal burial monument situated in Wiltshire. The site belongs to the early Neolithic period, representing a significant form of mortuary architecture common to southern England during the fourth millennium BC. Such long barrows served as collective burial places for multiple individuals and held important ritual and ceremonial functions within early farming communities. The monument survives as an earthwork, retaining its characteristic elongated mound form which would have originally contained a stone or wooden burial chamber.
Long barrow 400m north-west of Fox Covert is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010396. View the official record →
Long barrow 400m north-west of Fox Covert is a Neolithic communal burial monument situated in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010396.
Long barrow 400m north-west of Fox Covert 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 1010396.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bury Wood Camp hillfort and earthwork enclosure 750m north of Raffinwood House (5.4 km), Rampart of an Iron Age defended settlement 410m south west of Mount Scylla Farm (6.3 km), Three bowl barrows in Colerne Park, 450m north of Keeper's Cottage (7.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Long barrow 400m north-west of Fox Covert'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.
Long barrow 400m north-west of Fox Covert stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.