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Swanborough Tump is a Neolithic long barrow situated near the village of Swanborough in Wiltshire. The monument consists of an elongated earthen mound aligned roughly east-west, characteristic of the long barrow tradition of Neolithic Britain dating to the fourth millennium BC. Like other monuments of its type, Swanborough Tump would have served as a communal burial structure and is indicative of the established agricultural societies that occupied the Wiltshire chalklands during the early Neolithic period. The site remains an important archaeological witness to funerary practices and settlement patterns of prehistoric Wessex.
Swanborough Tump is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004743. View the official record →
Swanborough Tump is a Neolithic long barrow situated near the village of Swanborough in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004743.
Swanborough Tump 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 1004743.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enford Roman villa (8.1 km), Compton Farm Romano-British and Early Medieval occupation sites and associated cultivation earthworks (8.3 km), Round barrow south-west of Compton Farm (8.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Swanborough Tump'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.
Swanborough Tump stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.