West Kennet Long Barrow

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West Kennet Long Barrow
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“The West Kennet Long Barrow, also known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Probably constructed in the thirty-seventh century BC, during Britain's Early Neolithic period. Today it survives in a partially…”
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