South_Street_barrow
The South Street barrow is a Neolithic long barrow in the English county of Wiltshire, near Beckhampton. It lies around 70 metres southeast of the cove of The Longstones[1] and may therefore be connected with the Neolithic ritual landscape centred on Avebury.
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The mound was about 43 metres long and 17m wide, but cultivation has spread the material and reduced the mound's height.[1]
It was excavated between 1964 and 1966 by Paul Ashbee who found no evidence of burials beneath the barrow and conjectured that it was a kind of cenotaph. He found that it had been built around a number of wicker partitions using alternate layers of white chalk and darker earth. This material was probably excavated from flanking ditches surrounding the site, which survive as infilled features.