Willerby Wold
The heavily plowed Longbarrow ( German "Langhügel" ) of Willerby Wold comes from the Neolithic and is located northeast of Foxholes, in North Yorkshire in England . The surrounding, later round hills are also heavily eroded.
The east-west oriented long hill is about 50.0 meters long, 13.0 meters wide and half a meter high at the eastern end. The northern and southern flanking trenches are completely filled. The mound, examined by Greenwell in 1865 and Manby in 1958, contained three body burials, an accumulation of bones and remains of cremations, fragments of flint and broken pottery. The trapezoidal chamber with the concave palisade was at the eastern end. In the front area as a ceremonial room, flint stones, bones and pottery shards were piled up. The whole thing was covered with a mound of earth and chalk before it was burned down at an estimated 1200 degrees Celsius. The Willerby radiocarbon dates indicate a date around 3000 BC. Chr.
Nearby is the round barrow "Willerby Wold House".
literature
- Paul Ashbee: The Earthen Long Barrow in Britain: An Introduction to the Study of the Funerary Practice and Culture of the Neolithic People of the Third Millennium BC. Geo Books. 1984. ISBN 0-8609-4170-1 .
- Frances Lynch: Megalithic Tombs and Long Barrows in Britain. Shire Publications Ltd. 1997. ISBN 0-7478-0341-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The scenario recalls the more than 600 years older practices at the houses of the dead on Dorstone Hill in Herefordshire
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Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 12.1 ″ N , 0 ° 25 ′ 27 ″ W.