SDO15192 - Long Barrows on the South Dorset Ridgeway: a survey by English Heritage and the Ridgeway Survey Group

‘A survey of the Neolithic long barrows on the South Dorset Ridgeway was carried out in 2006 and 2007 by the English Heritage Archaeological Survey and Investigation Team (Exeter) and the Ridgeway Survey Group, a team of volunteers local to the Ridgeway. The long barrows include examples of chambered long barrows, well preserved earthen long barrows and sites which can now only be located from air photographs. The sites were recorded using a variety of survey techniques, including analytical earthwork survey and contouring using differential GPS to produce DTMs (Digital Terrain Models). Geophysical surveys were carried out on two of the sites to investigate the survival and preservation of buried features in both extant and ploughed over long barrows. Several of the long barrows are now contained within round barrow cemeteries and may well have formed the original focus for the cemeteries. Two of the long barrows have round barrows constructed on top of their long mounds.’