page_title: West Kennet Long Barrow
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: West Kennet Long Barrow / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: West Kennet Long Barrow
context_page_description: The West Kennet Long Barrow, also known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow located near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Probably constructed in the thirty-seventh century BCE, during Britain's Early Neolithic period, today it survives in a partially reconstructed state.
  Archaeologists have established that the monument was built by pastoralist communities shortly after the introduction of agriculture to Britain from continental Europe. Although representing part of an architectural tradition of long barrow building that was widespread across Neolithic Europe, the West Kennet Long Barrow belongs to a localised regional variant of barrows in Western Britain, now known as the Cotswold-Severn Group. Of these, it is part of a cluster of around thirty centring around Avebury in the uplands of northern Wiltshire.
  Built out of earth, local sarsen megaliths, and oolitic limestone imported from the Cotswolds, the long barrow consisted of a sub-rectangular earthen tumulus enclosed by kerb-stones. Its precise date of construction is not known.
context_section_description: West Kennet Long Barrow is found near to the village of Avebury in northern Wiltshire. It occupies a prominent place on the crest of a hill, just above the upper Kennet valley.
  To the north, it offers views of Avebury, and to the south St Anne's Hill and Wansdyke.
caption: The stones at the entrance to the chamber in West Kennet Long Barrow
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