Long barrow immediately north west of Maiden Castle

Half a kilometre from Maiden Castle, the long barrow still holds its shape on a north east facing slope, a low ridge of earth, chalk and flint stretching twenty-five metres toward the Frome Valley. It is the only surviving Neolithic burial mound so close to that ancient enclosure, linking the two through time rather than distance. People may have carried selected bones across that short distance, placing them beneath a ridge they shaped with borrowed soil from the ditches at either side. The barrow does not need grandeur to be remembered; it is the nearest death monument to one of Britain's oldest gathering places, and that proximity is the story.