Stonehenge Long Barrows and other early mortuary structures

Recent Investigations at Two Long Barrows and Reflections on their Context in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site and Environs

D. Roberts , A. Valdez-Tullett, P. Marshall, J. Last, A. Oswald, A. Barclay, B. Bishop, E. Dunbar, A. Forward, M. Law, N. Linford, P. Linford, I. López-Dóriga, A. Manning, A. Payne, R. Pelling, A. Powell, P. Reimer, M. Russell, F. Small, S. Soutar, J. Vallender, E. Winter and F. Worley

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Geophysical Survey
• 3. Historic England Excavation
• 4. Excavations on Behalf of Highways England
  • 4.1 Winterbourne Stoke 71
  • 4.2 Recutting and ditch fills
  • 4.3 Winterbourne Stoke 86
• 5. Long Barrows in the Stonehenge WHS and Environs
  • 5.1 Distribution
  • 5.2 Pre-barrow features, mortuary structures and secondary interments
  • 5.3 Size
  • 5.4 Chronology
  • 5.5 Landscape setting and intervisibility
  • 5.6 Long barrows and causewayed enclosures
  • 5.7 The afterlives of long barrows
• 6. Long Barrows in the Round
• Appendix 1: Lithics
• Appendix 2: Charred Plant Remains
• Appendix 3: Faunal Remains
• Appendix 4: Molluscs
• Appendix 5: Chronological Modelling
• Appendix 6: Geophysical Survey Methodology
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements

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Roberts, D. et al. 2018 Recent Investigations at Two Long Barrows and Reflections on their Context in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site and Environs, Internet Archaeology 47. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.47.7

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