Easton Down

Nearest town:
Devizes (7km SW)
OS reference:
SU063661
OS sheet:
173
Latitude:
51° 23' 36.09 N
Longitude:
1° 54' 33.99 W
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Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by thesweetcheat

The prominent barrow on the skyline. Seen from Wansdyke (in the foreground) to the southwest.

Image credit: A. Brookes (10.6.2023)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 25, 2024
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by thesweetcheat

Apologies for image quality, this was taken from the Bison Stone at the northern end of West Kennett Avenue (over 5km away) in failing light. The last rays of the midwinter sun sink below the horizon next to the long barrow. From the bank of Avebury henge itself the sun would fall directly behind the barrow at midwinter but hedges obscure this view.

Image credit: A. Brookes (22.12.2016)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 30, 2016
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by thesweetcheat

The long barrow from the south, with Cherhill in shadow on the left and the round barrow to the right.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.12.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 3, 2016
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by thesweetcheat

Looking from the barrow towards Tan Hill, part of the highest ridge of hills in Wiltshire.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.12.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 3, 2016
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by thesweetcheat

Zoom to the top of the round barrow and its temporary occupants.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.12.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 3, 2016
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by thesweetcheat

The round barrow to the NNE of the long barrow, the long grass acting as unconvincing cover for a couple of deer.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.12.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 3, 2016
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by thesweetcheat

Viewed from the south, on the footpath to Kitchen Barrow Hill. Wansdyke runs across the middle ground of the picture in front of the barrow.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.5.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 30, 2011
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by thesweetcheat

Although reduced by ploughing, the barrow is still a prominent skyline feature from the south.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.5.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 30, 2011
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by Chance

At the E. end of the barrow there is a marked depression some 8.O m in diameter, which is probably the remnant of Thurnam’s 1860 intrusion.

Image credit: Chance - April 2008
Chance
Chance May 6, 2008
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by Chance

The Easton Down Long Barrow looking at the side ditch and the area taken out of cultivation

Image credit: Chance - April 2008
Chance
Chance May 6, 2008
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by Chance

The Easton Down Long Barrow looking East towards Tan Hill.

Image credit: Chance - April 2008
Chance
Chance May 6, 2008
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by Chance

The Easton Down Long Barrow looking North towards its Bronze age Bowl Barrow neighbour

Image credit: Chance - April 2008
Chance
Chance May 6, 2008
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by Chance

The Easton Down Long Barrow looking North showing fence posts for scale. Note the remaining ground marks of the side ditch.

Image credit: Chance - April 2008
Chance
Chance May 6, 2008
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by Chance

The Easton Down Long Barrow looking East towards the A361.

Image credit: Chance - April 2008
Chance
Chance May 6, 2008
Image of Easton Down (Long Barrow) by Chance

General view of Easton Down Long Barrow from the farm track, which now measures roughly 40 m by 28 m.

Image credit: Chance - April 2008
Chance
Chance May 6, 2008

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Easton Down
Long Barrow
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 30, 2011

Pastscape description of the long barrow:

Neolithic long barrow (Grinsell’s Bishops Cannings 65) on Easton Down, excavated by Thurnam in the 1860s, who found two adult and two child inhumations. The barrow survives as a mound 46 metres long and a maximum of 45 metres wide, standing up to 3.6 metres high, with flanking side ditches still visible. Small scale excavation in 1991 was aimed primarily at investigating the environmental sequence. As well as sectioning both ditches and part of the mound, a series of test pits were dug in the vicinity. Artefacts were few, although a miniature Early Bronze Age vessel and some possible Iron Age sherds were found high in the ditch silts. Radiocarbon dates suggest a relatively late construction date for the barrow, probably in the late 4th millennium BC.

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