More information : (SU 22517976) Long Barrow (NR) (1)
Liddington/Wanborough 4, a long barrow situated on the parish
boundaries.
Dimensions: length 150 ft, width 40 ft, height 4 ft, orientated
SE/NW (2). Ploughing has rounded the extremities of the barrow
(3) and obliterated any side-ditches. Twelve (4) sarsens
protrode above the length of the mound and several hollows (3)
in the centre suggest excavation, prior to 1890. About that
year three skeletons were found while digging post-holes for a
boundary fence, on the east side of the barrow. A few years
later another was found by a shepherd. The period is not known.
The skeletons went to St Thomas's Hospital. (2,3)
Centred SU 225079 77. The long barrow has been so mutilated by
ploughing and haphazard digging that its true proportions are
difficult to define. It is approximately 40.0 metres long and
up to 1.2 metres high; there are no traces of the side ditches
or the sarsens. (4)
Divorced survey - 1:2500. (5)
The Neolithic long barrow, as referred to by the previous authorities, is visible on aerial photographs as an earthwork and has been mapped. The site however is no longer visible as either a cropmark or an earthwork and may have been ploughed out completely. The barrow, centred at SU 2249 7976, has a mound surrounded by a shallow ditch of a width of 10m at the southeastern end and 1.8m at the northwestern enb. It has a length of 45m, but is partly obscured by a modern field boundary. (6) |