If you go to Stonehenge, Avebury Circle or Silbury Hill you should stop in at this amazing burial mound. It's small but that's part of the attraction. At Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury everything is seen from a distance like you're walking through a museum where everything is behind glass. Here you can go into the mound and explore around it all you like. There are no walkways, fences or signs that start, "Please don't...... ". When you walk to the back of the interior you lose your scene of time and feel it could just as easily be 1010 BC outside in the sunlight as 2010. The stones guarding the entrance are in many ways more remarkable than those at the better know places. First of all the people who erected them seem to have just left for supper. They are arranged in a perfect order as if stating: "let those inside rest in peace". But what I found most amazing about West Kennet Long Barrow was that the basic layout of the place, the location on the hill, the grandeur of it all (if on a small scale) are all reminiscent of our modern places of worship and remembrance. The people who built the mound must have revered those who were once buried here and the template they created through intuition and inspiration have stayed with us all these years. read more

West Kennet Long Barrow - Landmarks & Historical Buildings Near Me - East Kennett, WIL

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