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A neolithic long barrow on the West Wiltshire Downs. 19th century excavations revealed eight skeletons and two cremation burials in an urn. The site can be best seen from an old rutted trackway heading up to the Ridgeway from Model Farm, to the west of Corton. There's no direct access, but there's a good gap in the tree cover along the track just past the barrow, where you can look back at it. The barrow itself, as with many others, has trees growing on top of it, but is surrounded by corn, so at least has some visual integrity.

Posted by awrc 15th June 2004ce

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