Mike Gill

15 Nov 2024

Just made the jump from X! To test the water, I am posting some #LiDAR snippets of #hillforts from central southern England. This image was my most popular post on X, let's see how many views and followers I can get on here 🙂. #Archaeology

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

7/8 The diches of the Bronze Age barrows on Normanton Down, just S of #Stonehenge, show as circular parch marks ...

8/8 And finally, at Druid's Lodge, a series of probable Iron Age enclosures show as very clear, detailed parch marks.

5/8 The Early Neolithic causewayed enclosure at Robin Hood's Ball shows clearly as a series of irregular concentric circles ...

6/8 At the Long Barrow roundabout on the A303, the parch marks of the ditches are clearly visible ...

3/8 At Woodhenge, the ditch shows as a wide pale parchmark around the marker posts indication where the wooden posts stood ...

4/8 The Lesser Cursus shows as a light cigar shaped parch mark ...

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 ...

2 Aug

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

13 July

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

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

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 …

wp.meA Recently Discovered Long Barrow near Southbourne, West SussexThis 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…

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

7/10 The long barrow occupies a small area of raised ground next to the coast, which probably contributed to its prominence …

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 …

5/10 The long barrow cropmarks also show on a 1946 RAF image historicengland.org.uk/images-books... …

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 …

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 …

4/10 The cropmarks show on aerial images from other years, and the Lidar suggests a slight remnant mound, almost destroyed by ploughing …

2/10 The long barrow occupies an unusual location near the coast, between Emsworth (Hampshire) and Southbourne (West Sussex) …

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

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 ...

wp.meA Recently Discovered Long Barrow near East Meon, Hampshireby 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 …

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

4/7 The area around East Meon attracted two Bronze Age barrow cemeteries as shown on this Lidar plot ...

5/7 Here is a 3D view of that Lidar plot ...

2/7 The cropmarks appear on aerial photographs from multiple years ...

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 ...

9 Dec 2025

#TombTuesday

Mike Gill@mikegill.bsky.social

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 ...

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 ...

wp.meAn 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…

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

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 ...

5/7 The cropmark of the ditch flanks the remnant mound shown in the Lidar ...

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)'...

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'...

wp.meAn Unrecorded Long Barrow near Morestead, Hampshireby 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…

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)

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

unearthinglongbarrows.co.ukAn Unrecorded Long Barrow near Morestead, Hampshireby 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…

7/7 A PDF of the article on the newly discovered long barrow can be downloaded here: unearthinglongbarrows.co.uk/2025/10/04/a...

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

5/7 The three long barrows that cluster around this valley are compared in the following plot, showing their contrasting nature

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.