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Mike Gill

@mikegill.bsky.social
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Archaeology, Neolithic, long barrows, landscape, GIS, geophysics. Community archaeology. Everton fan. Visiting Fellow Bournemouth University.

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is scheduled as a bowl barrow so would need a section 42 historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
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Bowl barrow on the south east corner of Larkhill Race Course, Figheldean - 1018625 | Historic England
List entry 1018625. Grade Not Applicable to this List Entry Scheduling: Bowl barrow on the south east corner of Larkhill Race Course. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yep, saw that, even clearer on this imagery than previous epochs.
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
8/8 And finally, at Druid's Lodge, a series of probable Iron Age enclosures show as very clear, detailed parch marks.
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
7/8 The diches of the Bronze Age barrows on Normanton Down, just S of #Stonehenge, show as circular parch marks ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
6/8 At the Long Barrow roundabout on the A303, the parch marks of the ditches are clearly visible ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
5/8 The Early Neolithic causewayed enclosure at Robin Hood's Ball shows clearly as a series of irregular concentric circles ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
4/8 The Lesser Cursus shows as a light cigar shaped parch mark ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
3/8 At Woodhenge, the ditch shows as a wide pale parchmark around the marker posts indication where the wooden posts stood ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2/8 The #Stonehenge Avenue shows for much of its course as two thin parallel lines. The first image is just North of the A303, the second just South ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For the #Stonehenge area, there is new imagery on Google Earth from August this year showing lots of #archaeology. Pits for missing stones at #Stonehenge plus the barrows just to the SW. Read this thread for more examples ... 1/8
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Very hot survey yesterday of a fantastic long barrow near Downton, #Wiltshire. Great detail of internal trapezoidal enclosure and interesting segmented ditch. Similar barrows with enclosures all seem to be along the eastern edge of the Avon Valley. #Neolithic #Archaeology
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The outer ditches flanking the Portway #Roman road are currently showing clearly as parch marks near Old Sarum hillfort, #Wiltshire. They line up with the modern road through Old Sarum that follows the line of the Portway. #Archaeology
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
10/10 To read a more detailed article about the long barrow at Southbourne, West Sussex, see this article: wp.me/pgKiQE-2r #Archaeology #Neolithic #Sussex
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A Recently Discovered Long Barrow near Southbourne, West Sussex
This article can be accessed / cited here: and is available for download as a PDF at the end of this article. Michael Gill, May 2026 The Neolithic long barrows of the chalk downs of Sussex have lon…
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
9/10 The four long barrows on the coastal plain have very similar plans, and contrast with many of the more ovate West Sussex examples on the South Downs to the north …
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
8/10 The long barrow is one of four in a linear arrangement along the coastal plain, with most long barrows being on the chalk downs to the north …
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
7/10 The long barrow occupies a small area of raised ground next to the coast, which probably contributed to its prominence …
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
6/10 The cropmarks are in fact recorded as archaeological features by Historic England, but they are grouped with other linear marks and classified as field boundaries …
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
5/10 The long barrow cropmarks also show on a 1946 RAF image historicengland.org.uk/images-books... …
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
4/10 The cropmarks show on aerial images from other years, and the Lidar suggests a slight remnant mound, almost destroyed by ploughing …
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
3/10 The flanking ditches show as a cropmark. They are so clear that two conjectural phases can be discerned where there is a change in the character of the ditches …
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
2/10 The long barrow occupies an unusual location near the coast, between Emsworth (Hampshire) and Southbourne (West Sussex) …
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A recently recognised 80 metre #Neolithic long barrow near the coast at Southbourne in West #Sussex. To find out more, read this thread or check out this article: wp.me/pgKiQE-2r #Archaeology ... 1/10
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
7/7 The discovery of this long barrow adds to our knowledge of #Neolithic monuments on the South Downs. Read the full article here: wp.me/pgKiQE-29
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A Recently Discovered Long Barrow near East Meon, Hampshire
by Michael Gill This article can be accessed / cited here:   and is available for download as a PDF at the end of this article. Neolithic long barrows are amongst the earliest monuments in Britain …
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
6/7 Looking at the wider distribution of long barrows, the example at East Meon is part of a scatter of fairly well spaced long barrows that extends along the Hampshire and Sussex chalk downs ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
5/7 Here is a 3D view of that Lidar plot ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
4/7 The area around East Meon attracted two Bronze Age barrow cemeteries as shown on this Lidar plot ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
3/7 It is significant that the long barrow is close to the springs at the source of the River Meon. Other long barrows have been shown to have a relationship with springs eg Swell region in Gloucestershire, Lambourn long barrow, West Kennett long barrow, Duck's Nest in Hampshire ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
2/7 The cropmarks appear on aerial photographs from multiple years ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Back in 2022 I spotted unrecorded cropmarks of a #Neolithic long barrow near East Meon, #Hampshire. It is positioned next to the source of the River Meon. Full details here: wp.me/pgKiQE-29 or read this thread ... 1/7
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
They tend to be located on the chalk - see this image of Historic England records with a category of long barrow. Chalk is green. Probably related to more open vegetation in Neolithic times.
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
#TombTuesday
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
7/7 A PDF of an article with more details about this long barrow, and citation information, can be downloaded from wp.me/pgKiQE-1d
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An Unrecognised Long Barrow near Whitsbury, Hampshire?
by Michael Gill This article can be accessed / cited here:  and is available for download as a PDF at the end of this article. The rolling chalkland of Cranborne Chase has a rich variety of Neolith…
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
6/7 The presence of a long barrow at this location fills a gap in the current long barrow distribution on this part of Cranborne Chase ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
5/7 The cropmark of the ditch flanks the remnant mound shown in the Lidar ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
4/7 Recent cropmarks shown on Google Earth imagery suggest the barrow may in fact be a long barrow, with evidence of a possible flanking ditch ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
3/7 Lidar shows traces of the barrow mound at a bend in the modern road. It is recorded by Historic England as a 'possible round barrow'...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
2/7 A large barrow is shown on the Old Series OS Map NW of Whitsbury, with the road deviating around it. It had been destroyed by 1872, shown on the 6-inch map as 'Tumulus (Site of)'...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
An unrecognised #Neolithic long barrow near Whitsbury, #Hampshire? Shown as a substantial barrow on the Old Series OS Map NW of Whitsbury, recent cropmarks suggest a flanking ditch. Read the full details here: wp.me/pgKiQE-1d or for a summary see this thread 1/7 ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
7/7 A PDF of the article on the newly discovered long barrow can be downloaded here: unearthinglongbarrows.co.uk/2025/10/04/a...
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An Unrecorded Long Barrow near Morestead, Hampshire
by Michael Gill This article can be accessed / cited here: and is available for download as a PDF at the end of this article. Even though Neolithic long barrows are relatively rare, particularly in…
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
6/7 This plot shows a wider context for the long barrows near Morestead (circled), showing the they are part of a cluster of long barrows on higher ground bracketed by the Itchen and Meon valleys
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
5/7 The three long barrows that cluster around this valley are compared in the following plot, showing their contrasting nature
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
4/7 Taking a slightly wider view, the Longwood long barrow sits just across the valley. This is another substantial barrow, suggesting the valley was of some importance in #Neolithic times
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
3/7 It is interesting that the newly discovered barrow is only 300m from the Warren Farm long barrow, recently shown to be a massive 135m in length - see t.co/UMN3LGY14l
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
2/7 The cropmarks show the infilled flanking ditches of a long barrow. They are almost parallel, but taper slightly, and the barrow was probably about 35-45m in length. The LiDAR shows traces of a ploughed out mound.
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I recently spotted cropmarks of an unrecorded #Neolithic long barrow at Morestead, near Winchester, #Hampshire. Read details here of the newly discovered 'Honeyman Lane' long barrow: wp.me/pgKiQE-Z or read on ... (1/7)
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An Unrecorded Long Barrow near Morestead, Hampshire
by Michael Gill This article can be accessed / cited here: and is available for download as a PDF at the end of this article. Even though Neolithic long barrows are relatively rare, particularly in…
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Sometime between AD 55 and 65 a man named Lucius Julius Hipponicus scratched his named into a Samian Ware drinking cup Because of this simple act, he is one of the first residents of Exeter (ISCA) for whom we have a name 📷 May 2025 @rammuseum.bsky.social #FindsFriday #Roman #Archaeology #Devon
A sherd of red-slip pottery scratched with the name of its last owner: L IVLI IPPONI
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
9/9 A PDF of an article on the Warren Farm long barrow, and citation information, can be downloaded from wp.me/pgKiQE-c
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Unrecognised as the longest long barrow in Hampshire? The Warren Farm long barrow at Morestead
by Michael Gill This article can be accessed / cited here: and is available for download as a PDF at the end of this article. Although long barrow discoveries are still being made, it is fair to sa…
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
8/9 If this monument really is so large, it is interesting to ask why it is located where it is. Circled on the map below, it is on the edge of only a sparse scatter of long barrows ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
7/9 It is so long, it can also be compared with bank barrows, which are extremely long parallel sided mounds. In this case, it is probably not sufficiently regular to be included in this class ...
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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
6/9 Its form can also be compared with other large Hampshire long barrows ...
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