Adam's Grave
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Adam's Grave (also Walker Hill or Woden's Barrow - German " Odin's Hill" ) is a long hill ( English Long Barrow ), north of Alton Barnes, southwest of Marlborough in Wiltshire in England .
The trapezoid long hill is about 6.0 meters high and 60.0 meters long. On each long side, about 6.0 meters wide and 0.9 meters deep (originally deeper) trenches can be seen. At the southeast end traces of a chamber (two sarsen stones ) can be seen, which are colloquially referred to as "Old Adam" and "Little Eve". It is believed that Adam's tomb was a Cotswold Severn Tomb , whose exedra was constructed from posts and drywall (posts and panels) in the "post and panel technique".
In 1860 John Thurnam (1810–1873) examined the chamber and found three or four incomplete skeletons and a leaf-shaped arrowhead . Originally there appears to have been a retaining wall made of sarsen and dry stone masonry around the hill.
Adam's Grave was known as Wodnesbeorg (Wotansberg) or Wodansbury when the Battle of Woden's Burg (715) between the kings of Wessex ( Ine ) and Mercia ( Ceolred ) took place here in 715 AD .
literature
- David Field: Earthen long barrows: the earliest monuments in the British Isles . Stroud, Tempus, 2006.
- John Thurnam: Archaeologia: or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity . Society of Antiquaries of London 38, 1861/2: 405-421.
- Frances Lynch: Megalithic Tombs and Long Barrows in Britain . Shire, Princes Risborough 1997, ISBN 0-7478-0341-2 pp. 37, 39 ( Shire archeology 73).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 10.2 " N , 1 ° 50 ′ 24" W.