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Lugbury Long Barrow
Hob Uid: 208304
Location : Wiltshire Nettleton
Grid Ref : ST8305078550
Summary : A Neolithic chambered long barrow excavated by Colt Hoare in 1821 and again by Scrope in 1854/5. Multiple inhumation burials, flint flakes found.
More information : [ST 8305 7855] Lugbury. LONG BARROW [GT]. (1) A long barrow, known as Lugbury(s) (2) 180-200 (6) by 90-80 (6) feet, and 6 feet high mound, reduced by ploughing, orientated east - west with a false entrance at the east end; and in the eastern half of the south side, four closed chambers or cists. Crawford suggested that there were passages to the chambers from the edge of the barrow but Daniel thought this unlikely. Excavated by Colt Hoare in 1821 who found a contracted inhumation at ground level. Completely re-excavated by Scrope (report by Thuman) in 1854/5 who found three chambers which contained multiple burials of adults and children of both sexes: all dolichocephalic types. Also an empty chamber - probably rifled. Some flint flakes and a probable scraper were found. (2-7) This long barrow, although scheduled, has been so spread by ploughing that the side ditches are now overlain by material from the mound. Surveyed at 1/2500. (8) 'Lugbury' (name unverified) long barrow survives as a grass-covered mound now reduced by ploughing to a rectangular form, 57.0m, E-W by 20.0m N-S and up to 1.4m high. Plough spread soil from the mound has obscured all trace of side ditches. At the E end the false portal is represented by two upright megaliths about 3.0m apart (the northern stone is 1.7m high by 1.3m wide by 0.3m thick; the southern 1.9m high by 1.3m wide by 0.9m thick) against the W side of which leans a great slab 3.2m long by 2.1m wide by 0.3m thick, set on edge N-S. These megaliths are at present obscured by dense bramble. Surveyed at 1:2500 on AM. (9)

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Source details : OS 6" Prov 1955
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Source details : Wilts. Topo. Collns. 1862. 149, (J. Aubrey 1659-70 Ed. J.Jackson.)
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Source Number : 3
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Source details : Prehist. Chamber Tombs, EdW, 1950, 226-7. (G.E. Daniel)
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Source details : Long Barrow in Cotswolds. 1925, 230-4, (O.G.S. Crawford)
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Source details : W.A.M. 3, 1856-7, 164-73. (J. Thurnham).
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : V.C.H., Wilts. 1, 1957, (L.V. Grinsell)
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : AP: Camb. Univ. Colln. (J.K. St. Joseph) H.Q.55
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Source Number : 8
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Source details : F1 JP 07-OCT-67
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Source Number : 9
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Source details : F2 JWS 06-APR-76
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Neolithic
Display Date : Neolithic
Monument End Date : -2200
Monument Start Date : -4000
Monument Type : Chambered Long Barrow, Inhumation, Contracted Inhumation
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Components and Objects:

Period : Neolithic
Component Monument Type : Chambered Long Barrow, Inhumation, Contracted Inhumation
Object Type : FLAKE
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 100
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : WI 15
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 12290
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : ST 87 NW 3
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1821-01-01
End Date : 1821-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1854-01-01
End Date : 1855-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1967-10-07
End Date : 1967-10-07

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1976-04-06
End Date : 1976-04-06

Associated Activities :
Activity type : GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY
Start Date : 2010-01-01
End Date : 2010-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Lugbury Long Barrow