Long Burgh Long Barrow, is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Alfriston in the south-eastern English county of East Sussex. Probably constructed in the fourth millennium BCE, during Britain's Early Neolithic period, today it survives only in a state of ruin.
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 Long Burgh Long Barrow belongs to a localised regional variant of barrows produced on the chalk downlands of Sussex.
Context
editThere are at least ten recorded long barrows in Sussex.[1]
Description
editThe Long Burgh Long Barrow is 180 feet in length and aligned on a northeast to southwest axis.[2]
A second long barrow at Alfriston is 90 feet in length and is aligned on a south/southeast to north/northwest axis.[2]
References
editFootnotes
edit- ^ Kinnes 1992, p. 13.
- ^ a b Ashbee 1970, p. 169.
Bibliography
edit- Ashbee, Paul (1970). The Earthen Long Barrow in Britain. London: J. M. Bent and Sons. ISBN 978-0460077552.
- Grinsell, Leslie V. (1953). The Ancient Burial-Mounds of England (second ed.). London: Methuen & Co.
- Hutton, Ronald (1991). The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy. Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-17288-8.
- Hutton, Ronald (2013). Pagan Britain. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-197716.
- Kinnes, Ian (1992). Non-Megalithic Long Barrows and Allied Structures in the British Neolithic. British Museum Occasional Papers No. 52. London: British Museum.
- Malone, Caroline (2001). Neolithic Britain and Ireland. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-1442-9.
- Toms, H.S. (1922). "Long Barrows in Sussex". Sussex Archaeological Collections. 63: 157–65. doi:10.5284/1086406.