What is recorded here
Thirty-two metres of Neolithic earth still stand above the Wolds, guarding buried bones and forgotten rituals from 3400 BC. The mound rises a metre and a half from scrubland beside Horncastle Road, untouched by ploughs or excavators. It is not a casual heap but a shaped vessel for communal death, its missing ditch likely sleeping beneath the soil. People walked this ridge when Britain was young, selecting parts of their dead for eternity while leaving the rest behind.
The National Heritage List for England records Tathwell long barrow, 350m NNW of the junction of Horncastle Road and New Lane as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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Places near here
Long BarrowArchaeological place · 6 yd
Tathwell Long Barrow north of Cadwell: aerial 2022Ancient burial place · 25 yd
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Stonepit CovertWood · 1123 yd
Lodge to Cadwell ParkListed building · 1178 yd
Withcall HouseListed building · 1.3 mi
Orgarth HillMountain / peak · 1.7 mi
Bully HillMountain / peak · 2.3 mi
Evening Falls on All Saints' Church, HaughamWaterfall · 2.6 mi
Culvert and waterfall in Welton Vale (3)Waterfall · 3.2 mi
Wooden leaf "sculpture" in Westgate FieldsPublic sculpture · 3.3 mi
Thomas Wilkinson WallisMemorial · 3.7 mi