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

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

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

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

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

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.

9/9 A PDF of an article on the Warren Farm long barrow, and citation information, can be downloaded from wp.me/pgKiQE-c

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 ...

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 ...

6/9 Its form can also be compared with other large Hampshire long barrows ...

5/9 If this #Neolithic long barrow really is 135m, how does it compare with other Hampshire long barrows? The chart shows just how much longer it is, an incredible 25m more than the next longest ...

4/9 When the cropmark traces are overlaid onto the LiDAR, they perfectly flank the mound, appearing to confirm that the 'ridge' is actually an extension, or tail, to the mound ...

3/9 However, recent imagery on Google Earth shows what appear to be two sections of ditch ...

2/9 The Warren Farm long barrow is 5km south-east of Winchester and was recorded by RCHME as 60m in length, located on a 'narrow ridge'. LiDAR plots suggested this 'narrow ridge' might actually be an extension of the mound, but this was hard to prove. ...

Hugh Davies (2002, Fig 12) provides a handy schematic including these small 'outer' ditches (A and A') in his book 'Roads in Roman Britain'. (4/4) #Archaeology

Ivan Margary (1973, 22) suggests such ditches mark out a 'road zone' for Roman roads, with the agger of the road built centrally between them. He describes two 'classes' of ditch separation, 84 feet and 62 feet. The Old Sarum example matches the former almost exactly (3/4)

They also appear on aerial photographs, allowing the distance between the ditches to be measured - approximately 26m (85 feet). How did these ditches relate to the road? (2/4)

2/2 The map and gazetteer listing the sites numbered on the map can be viewed on archive org here: archive.org/details/Neol...