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Stoney Littleton Long Barrow

Wellow, Somerset

A tomb aimed at the midwinter sunrise, with a fossil on its doorway.

Stoney Littleton is a long barrow with a 13-metre passage and seven side chambers. Its entrance roughly faces the midwinter sunrise.

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When
c. 3500 BC
Where
51.3160, -2.3830
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

English Heritage, free. A walk across fields from Wellow.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The passage and entrance are roughly aligned on the midwinter sunrise. On the left-hand doorpost is the impression of a fossil ammonite.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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