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Image of Sherrington Long Barrow by GLADMAN

Under all that industrial-strength vegetation is a very substantial long barrow...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Sherrington Long Barrow by GLADMAN

Almost completely overgrown – but, thankfully, not quite.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone

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Sherrington Long Barrow
Long Barrow

Beautifully sited to the south of the meandering River Wylye, just east of the village of Sherrington, this would be a first-rate monument to visit... if only someone in the locality would see fit to undertake a little pruning of the overwhelming mantle of industrial-strength vegetation once in a while.

This, however, would appear unlikely in the extreme... if only to judge by the farcically sour-faced short woman clearly seriously affronted by me having the temerity to drive down a public road in HER village while she let her dog run out of control. Ignore such ignorant fools, I say... those whose money and privilege cannot even accord them basic good manners.

Yeah, combine a sojourn here with a visit to the wondrous Corton long barrow... or the great Boyton Down Round Barrow (the nearby Boyton Down long barrow was even more overgrown than this one)... and happy days.

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Sherrington Long Barrow
Long Barrow

Details of long barrow on Pastscape

A long barrow, 97 feet long, 70 feet wide, 14 feet high in 1812, but more recently 10 feet high apparently oriented east south east/west north west. It was excavated in 1804 by W Cunnington, who found a layer of charred wood and ashes possibly from platform cremations, but no primary burials in the mound, one accompanied by sword, knife, spearhead, umbo and other objects. All the finds seem to have been lost. It was re-opened by Thurman and the Rev A Fane in 1856 but without result. The mound is much damaged by ploughing and other mutilations and there is no indication of flanking ditches.

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Sherrington Long Barrow
Long Barrow

This earthen longbarrow is only 90m from the River Wylye, as it winds its way along the valley. Cunnington partially excavated it in the 19th century, and found beneath the mound a cist of chalk blocks. Inside were an ox skull and a small deer antler (perhaps the latter was a pick?). Ox skulls were also found under the Beckhampton long barrow outside Avebury.

(info from Burl’s ‘Prehistoric Avebury’ (p103) and the Scheduled Monument record)

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