MPP conducted excavations of roundhouses (somewhere in Scotland) and reported that there was a buried corpse beneath the doorway, in one of them. That's about as close as it gets.
It's quite easy to envisage a long barrow's appearance as a woolly thatched longhouse. And very literal too.
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