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West Kennet Long Barrow
A great Neolithic burial mound you can walk inside, older than Stonehenge.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- A4 near West Kennett, AveburyDirections
- Getting There
- A 20-minute walk up a field path from the A4, near Silbury Hill.
Why Go
Built around 3650 BC, the long earthen mound has a stone passage and five chambers at one end, where the bones of dozens of people were found. Huge sarsen stones guard the entrance, and from the top you look across to Silbury Hill.
Nearby in Stonehenge
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