View NW of the entrance & forecourt horns of Stoney Littleton Neolithic chambered tomb, Somerset, England, UK, with an ammonite cast on W door jamb.

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View NW of the entrance & forecourt horns of Stoney Littleton Neolithic chambered tomb, Somerset, England, UK, with an ammonite cast on the W door jamb (L). A Cotswold Severn transepted gallery grave with an antechamber behind the entrance, a central passage, three pairs of opposed side chambers & a terminal chamber at the NW end within a trapezoidal mound. Heaps of human bones from many individuals lay in the chambers. The jambs & lintel are "Blue Lias", the drystone retaining walls & chamber slabs Jurassic limestone all brought from outcrops over 5 miles away.

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Size: 3780px × 2659px
Location: Stoney Littleton Long Barrow, Wellow, Bath, Bath and NE Somerset, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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