More information : 'A' - SK 12165399, 'B' - SK 12105383 Long Low, Wetton. This late
Neolithic long mound, incorporating two round barrows, is without
precise parallels but has affinities with a gallery/passage grave in
Anglesey, Brynyr Hen Bob (SH 56 NW 2). The north-east and larger
round barrow 28 yards in diamter and 8 ft high, was built first, it
covered a massive stone cist which contained the remains of 13
crouched skeletons and 3 leaf-shaped arrowheads. A secondary
inhumation burial was found in the west side of the mound. At a later date the south-west barrow was joined to the first by a bank 15 yards wide and 4 ft high, with an overall length of 220 yards. An internal drystone wall ran the length of this bank and terminated at the centre of the south-west barrow, where it ran up against a short length of internal walling built at right angles to it. A row of upright slabs continued its line to the far side of this mound and a cremation burial was deposited within the west angle formed by the cross-wall and the upright slabs. Other cremations occurred in the bank and the south-west barrow. (1,2)
Long Low consists of two bowl-shaped barrows connected by a large bank which lies along the crest of a north-eastern spur. 'A', a round barrow 27.0m in diameter and 2.1m high with no visible ditch is badly mutilated by a least four craters dug into the mound, old lead
workings in the same field may be responsible for some of the
mutilation. 'B' a round barrow 16.0m in diameter and 0.9m high has
no visible ditch. The bank where best preserved averages 14.5m in
width and 2.0m in height, but is much reduced as it approached 'B'; a
modern field wall runs along it. (3)
No change except that barrow 'B' is now surmounted by a small
rectangular water reservoir. Survey of 11.11.57 still correct. (4)
(Centred SK 12135392) Long Low (NR) (5)
Authorities and excavation details listed. (6,7)
SK 122529. Wetton. Longlow listed as scheduled No. 151 under Burial Mounds and Megalithic Monuments. (8)
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