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Long barrow on Keysley Down is a Neolithic communal burial monument situated on the chalk downland of Wiltshire. The barrow represents the funerary practices of the early farming communities who settled in southern Britain during the fourth and third millennia before the present, a period when long barrows served as focal points for collective interment and ritual activity. The monument survives as an earthwork mound on the landscape, retaining evidence of its original construction despite the passage of millennia. Such monuments are among the earliest architectural achievements of British prehistory and provide valuable insight into Neolithic settlement patterns, social organisation, and belief systems.
Long barrow on Keysley Down, 1020m NNE of Chapel Field Barn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016195. View the official record →
Long barrow on Keysley Down is a Neolithic communal burial monument situated on the chalk downland of Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016195.
Long barrow on Keysley Down, 1020m NNE of Chapel Field Barn 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 1016195.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow NE of Sheephouse Farm (3.1 km), Bowl barrow 190m north east of Burton Farm (5.5 km), Sedgehill churchyard cross (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Long barrow on Keysley Down, 1020m NNE of Chapel Field Barn'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 on Keysley Down, 1020m NNE of Chapel Field Barn stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.