long barrow

American  

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.

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Example Sentences

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 • Sep. 9, 2022

It's not clear what the long barrow was used for, and it's that lack of clarity that's interesting and in a way inspiring, because you can make up your own stories.

From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2011

Silbury Hill is an iron age manmade hill, and the long barrow is almost in its shadow – the whole area is full of these ancient pre-Christian sites.

From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2011

Not far away in Clatford Bottom is the "Devil's Den," a cromlech upon the remains of a long barrow; the upper slab measures nine feet by eight.

From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Holmes, Edric

The urn was formed of coarse hand-made earthenware, very brittle by long burial in the earth, but not by any means so old or porous as the fragments we had discovered in the long barrow.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant