Monument record MDO1510 - Long barrow on Martin's Down, Long Bredy

A Neolithic long barrow on Martin's Down, part of a cluster of monuments including a bank barrow and several round barrows. In 1952 this monument was described as an earthwork about 116 feet long with ditches on both sides. The mound was between 42½ and 51½ feet wide at its widest point, and between 3 and 5½ feet high.

A: A long barrow. Length 110 ft, width 90 ft, height 6 ft. The orientation is E-W, and the barrow has side ditches which do not go round the ends. No. 139 in 'Neo. Wessex' . <3-5> 4. A: This long barrow has the following dimensions:- Length 32.0m; width 11.0m at the centre. It is slightly wider at the SE end and narrower at the NW. The maximum height, at the SE is 1.8m. The barrow is oriented NW-SE, not E-W (T3). It is flanked by mutilated side ditches which do not go round the ends. These ditches average 5.0m wide and 0.3m deep. … Both barrows are grass covered. See Aps: St.J/BJ/12 and 13. <6> A Neolithic long barrow, listed by RCHME as Long Bredy 8 and by Grinsell as Long Bredy II, Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1955 recorded it as a mound aligned northwest-southeast and measuring 32 metres in length. It was 11 metres wide at the centre, and appeared slightly wider at the southeast end and narrower at the northwest. It was highest at the southeast end, measuring 1.8 metres. Parallel side ditches averaged 5 metres across and 0.3 metres deep, and did not carry on round the ends of the mound. <4> <6-7> A Neolithic long barrow on Martin's Down. The mound is aligned northwest-southeast and measures 32 metres in length, it is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. <12>

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