England - Adams Grave (Long Barrow)

 

Location:  – Wiltshire. Near Alton Priors.

Description: Adam's Grave on Walker's Hill is a dramatically sited long barrow in Wiltshire.

This long barrow is about 60m (196ft) long and 6m (19ft) high. On either side are ditches still 6m (19ft) wide and 0.9m (3ft) deep. At the SE end are traces of a sarsen stone burial chamber. In 1860 John Thurnam opened this chamber to find three or four incomplete skeletons and a leaf-shaped arrowhead.

Originally, there seems to have been a retaining wall of sarsens and drystone around the barrow. In AD 592, when two warriors, Coel and Caewlin, fought beside it, Adam's Grave was known as Wodnesbeorg.

 

 

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