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Image of Windover Long Mound (Long Barrow) by Cursuswalker

The gap in the Long Mound 27/7/07. Looking north west.

This was caused by an excavation of the Long Mound in the early 20th Century, for which I have forgotten the source.

This gap was the origin of Rodney Castleden’s phallus theory in The Wilmington Giant (1983), the area to the right being the head.

Image credit: cursuswalker
Image of Windover Long Mound (Long Barrow) by Cursuswalker

Windover Long Mound from the top of the Cursus. Summer 1999.

This is the view north-east from the top of the Mound. it is the same length as the space now occupied by the Long Man and oriented towards the top of that space.

Image credit: Cursuswalker
Image of Windover Long Mound (Long Barrow) by Cursuswalker

Windover Long Mound from the top of the Cursus. Summer 1999.

The Barrow emerges over the apparent horizon perfectly as you walk up the Cursus.

Image credit: Cursuswalker

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Windover Long Mound

[visited 14/07/03] If I hadn’t known this was a barrow, I would have thought it was either related to the fint mines next to it or some weird hillfortesque defense. The reason for my confusion is it seems to curve along the edge of the hill, though that could have been my sleep addled mind...

All in all its a good length, though fairly denuded & with a bit missing (the platform?). The question in my mind is whether the fint mines are contempory as Dyer hints.

Windover Long Mound

I am adding some sites on Windover Hill, the site of the Long Man of Wilmington. These photographs were taken nearly 4 years ago and I have only just dug them up!

The landscape above the Long Man is well worth a visit for those who don’t mind shapes in the grass with no interesting rocks cluttering up the place. We don’t really do rocks in this neck of the woods.

(See the Goldstone, in Brighton, for a notable exception. The only megalith to have had a football ground named after it!)

The fact that a large Neolithic Long Barrow and a large Bronze Age Round Barrow seem to be aligned with the space on which the Long Man now stands is something that I find intriguing. While the Naturalistic figure of the Long Man could only be Roman at the very oldest, I believe there to have been something on this site for a very long time. If only we could see what were the original designs on this hill.

Sites within 20km of Windover Long Mound