View NNW at the megalithic facade, entrance passage & burial chambers of Wayland's Smithy Neolithic long barrow beside the Ridgeway long distance path

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View NNW at the megalithic facade, entrance passage & burial chambers of Wayland's Smithy Neolithic long barrow beside the Ridgeway long distance path in Oxfordshire, UK. A Cotswold-Severn gallery grave built in the 4th millenium BC. Named after Wayland, the lame smith of the Teutonic & Anglo-Saxon gods. One of the sites said to have inspired the writer Tolkien.

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Location: Wayland's Smithy Long Barrow, Uffington, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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