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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

10. Tomb Detectives – West Kennet Long Barrow, Wiltshire

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Neil takes us across Wiltshire’s Ritual Landscape to investigate a mysterious chambered tomb.


Built by our ancestors over 5000 years ago West Kennet Long Barrow is one of the largest chambered tombs in the British Isles. In it were found stone daggers, beads and pottery together with skulls, long bones and other human remains – a place that that still has the power and presence to make the hairs on the back of your neck rise as you crawls inside.

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filled with the smell, the stench of death.

0:38.0

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0:46.7

to celebrate and to commiserate, filled with skulls, long bones and other human remains.

0:55.0

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that makes the hairs of the back of your neck rise as you crawl inside.

1:05.0

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1:17.0

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1:23.0

In the last podcast you took us to the late district and the invention of heaven itself.

1:34.4

Where's the next stop on our journey?

1:37.0

Well, we're traveling south to a place that after 5,000 years still has the presence to enthrall.

1:45.0

It's one of the largest and most striking tombs in the whole of the British Isles.

1:49.0

It's West Kennett Longborough in Wiltshire. It sits up on a ridge of high ground, so it's on a kind of a

2:00.4

ridge way. So when you're when you're when you're when you're when you're when you're at West Kennet you've got a

2:04.3

view of the surrounding landscape. Technically from an archaeological point of view it fits into a set of tombs called the

2:15.0

Cotswold Severn group. Archaeologists for a hundred years and more have enjoyed cataloging things, grouping things together,

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