If it were not for the long barrows, we would have very little idea what was going on in early Neolithic Britain, not long after the first farmers arrived.

Although, for us, they occupy the same landscape, up to a thousand years separates the construction of these great tombs from the later megalithic edifices such as the stone circles and indeed Stonehenge itself.

The long barrows are at once a mystery and also the biggest insight we have into the lives and culture of the early settlers and their descendants not long after the farming revolution took hold in Britain & Ireland.

Rupert Soskin presents a portrait of the Severn/Cotswold Long Barrows, telling the story of how they have been gradually giving up their secrets to archaeology over the past two hundred years.

00:00 Sir Richard Colt Hoare & Stoney Littleton
03:25 A context for the long barrows
04:48 The forms of long barrows
05:44 Arthur’s Stone & Dorstone Hill
08:51 Houses of the living houses of the dead.
09:31 Wayland’s Smithy
11:04 Belas Knap
13:18 West Kennet Long Barrow
17:07 Hazleton North
20:00 The Hazleton North Family Tree
23:14 A new excavation

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