West Kennet

A Neolithic long barrow, the largest of the Severn-Cotswold group of megalithic tombs, in Wiltshire, England, of c 3500 BC. The tomb has two pairs of transepts and a terminal chamber; the entrance opens from a crescent-shaped forecourt blocked by a straight facade of sarsen slabs. The burial was of 46 disarticulated inhumations and the chambers were filled with a mixture of soil, charcoal, sherds of Peterborough ware, and grooved ware and beaker fragments. That material has a date of 2500/2000 BC.

The largest of the Severn- situated near Avebury in Wiltshire, southern England. The tomb is a transepted gallery grave withan impressive concave facade, under a massive long barrow, clOO metres in length. Excavations early in the century and again in the 1950s produced evidence of use for collective burial. The chamber excavated in the 1950s had been filled up to roof level with mixed earth and rubbish, deposited after the final burial in the chamber. Ilie burial deposit has a radiocarbon date of c2600 bc (¿350 bc), while the overlying deposit contains Grooved ware and Beaker pottery, suggesting a date of c2000 bc (c2500 bc) or later.