long barrow

noun

Archaeology.

1. a funerary barrow having an elongate shape, sometimes constructed over a megalithic chamber tomb and usually containing one or more inhumed corpses along with artifacts: primarily Neolithic but extending into the Bronze Age.

Example Sentences

But among the 5,500 sites identified by Right to Roam as having no basic legal right of direct public access are the East Kennett long barrow in Wiltshire, a neolithic burial mound first protected as a scheduled monument in 1924, and the Holne Chase Iron Age hill fort in woodland on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.

From BBC

Wiltshire Police said officers were called to the West Kennet Long Barrow on Sunday afternoon.

From BBC

The West Kennet Long Barrow dates to around 3,650 BC and has been described by archaeologists as being typical of the Early Neolithic period.

From BBC

Dr. Obermaier’s survey of the local terrain pointed to the presence of a long barrow, an elongated stone monument to the dead.

From New York Times

Some came from west Wales and Ireland, where they built stone tombs, while others came from eastern England, where burials were in long barrow mounds.

From National Geographic