Type

Monument

Title / Name

Liddington Long Barrow

Summary

Neolithic long barrow excavated c1890.

Description

A long barrow. Three skeletons were found c.1890, an adult male skeleton was found later. No trace of side ditches. Early sources note sarsens were present. The Ordnance Survey give the National Grid Reference as SU22507977. The barrow mound is ovoid in plan and orientated WNW-ESE. It survives to 42m in length, is 30m wide and stands 1.5m high. Although no longer visible at ground level, flanking ditches, from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument, rum parallel to the north and south sides of the mound. These have become infilled over the years but survive as buried features c3m wide. A hollow in the central area of the barrow mound represents partial excavation by antiquarians, probably in the 19th century.

LONG BARROW; INHUMATION, Neolithic (-4000 to -2351)

Source Detail: No Originator information., 1922-1924

Title: The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine - Volume 42 (master)

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI1203

Additional Information: The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine Volume 42

Source Detail: Pugh, R. B. + Crittall, E. + Grinsell, L. V. + Gifford, J., 1957

Title: The Victoria County History of the Counties of England: A History of Wiltshire Vol.1.1 (master)

Summary: Gazetteer Source ID: SWI13104

Additional Information: Oxford University Press 1 1

Description: Liddington/Wanborough 4, a long barrow situated on the parish boundaries. Dimensions: length 150 ft, width 40 ft, height 4 ft, orientated SE/NW. Ploughing has rounded the extremities of the barrow and obliterated any side-ditches. Twelve (4) sarsens protrode above the length of the mound and several hollows 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.

Source Detail: Ordnance Survey, 1960

Title: Ordnance Survey 6 inch Map 1960

Summary: Map Source ID: SWI13275

Description: (SU 22517976) Long Barrow (NR).

Source Detail: Swindon Work Opportunity Programme, 1983

Title: Liddington Long Barrow

Summary: Fieldwork - 5.11.1983 Source ID: SWI18154

Source Detail: English Heritage, 1994

Title: English Heritage Scheduling document SM12281

Summary: Map Source ID: SWI20603

Source Detail: Royal Air Force, 1940-50s

Title: Royal Air Force (RAF) Aerial Photography (master)

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI26099

Description: The Neolithic long barrow 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 has a mound surrounded by a shallow ditch of a width of 10 metres at the southeastern end and 1.8 metres at the northwestern enb. It has a length of 45 metres, but is partly obscured by a modern field boundary.

Source Detail: Historic England, Various

Title: National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) Entry

Summary: Data held by the NRHE database. The data is made available and licenced under the Open Government Licence version 3. Source ID: SWI29488

Description: Divorced survey - 1:2500.

Source Detail: Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1954-1997

Title: OS/RCHME: Archaeology Division Antiquity Models, Wiltshire

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI31035

Source Detail: English Heritage,

Title: D/SU2279/3-11

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI5841

Source Detail: Grinsell, L.V., Undated

Title: Grinsell Private 6 inch Map, undated (master)

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI7925

Description: 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.

Source Detail: No Originator information., 1984

Title: The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine - Volume 79 (master)

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI980

Additional Information: The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine Volume 79