Marked upon current 1:25k OS mapping as 'Mound', this proved to be an unexpectedly fine, obscure long barrow.... of which I was previously ignorant until but a week beforehand. Aren't such monuments the best ones? Part of a trio of well-preserved long barrows in the extended locale of the Great Stour (along with the excellent - if very, very overgrown - Bodsham... and Cope's celebrated Julliberrie's Grave), the monument still rises to over 6ft high at the south-eastern terminus.... and is a - frankly whopping - c230ft in length!
Historic England's scheduling has this to say:
"...The Long Barrow is situated on level ground at the top of the North Downs scarp overlooking the valley of the Great Stour. It is oriented SE-NW, with the SE end broader and surviving to a greater height. The most distinctive feature of the monument is the elongated earthen mound, measuring some 70m in length and 10-12m in width. It stands to a height of 2m above the surrounding area at the SE end, and 1m at the NW end. Less obvious but nevertheless discernible are two long but shallow depressions alongside the mound which are now no more then 20-30cm deep but which are the filled-in remains of two deep flanking ditches, the same length as the mound itself, from which earth and chalk was quarried to make the mound. No excavations appear to have taken place at this monument, but its form is distinctively that of a Neolithic burial mound. Similar examples which have been excavated have shown that a burial chamber containing the remains of a number of individuals can be expected at the eastern end of the monument...."
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