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Wishes and offerings on the tree at Coldrum Long Barrow, England. A wish tree is a tree, usually distinguished by species, location or appearance, which is used as an object of wishes and offerings. Such trees are identified as possessing a special religious or spiritual value.
At Wayland's Smithy in Oxfordshire, visitors have lodged coins into cracks in the site's stones since at least the 1960s, [58] while at the Coldrum Long Barrow in Kent, a rag tree has been established overhanging the barrow. [59] Many modern Pagans view West Kennet Long Barrow as a "temple" and use it for their rituals. [60]
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Couckoo Ball Long Barrow, Devon [1] Butterdon Hill Long Barrow, Dartmoor, Devon [2] Corringdoon Ball Long Barrow, Devon [3] Giants' Hills, Lincolnshire; Hazleton long barrows, north and south, Gloucestershire; Julliberrie's Grave, Kent; Long Barrow, near the Seven Barrows, Berkshire; Nympsfield Long Barrow, Gloucestershire; Stoney Littleton ...
It takes inspiration from among other monuments Bryn Celli Ddu, Barclodiad y Gawres, and Stoney Littleton Long Barrow. Developing the barrow involved collaboration with archaeologists at the University of Cambridge [8] [9] The gate for the barrow was designed by Giles Smith, winner, in the Assemble Collective, of the 2015 Turner Prize. [10]
The barrow was completely excavated, so all that remains of it are the now backfilled and below-ground quarry pits on the northern and southern sides of the barrow. In 2020 one of the Hazleton North burial chambers, built of limestone orthostats, was reconstructed as a new display at Corinium Museum in Cirencester.
The Long Barrow at All Cannings is a modern barrow near All Cannings, Wiltshire, England, inspired by the neolithic barrows built 5,500 years ago. It was the first barrow built in Britain in thousands of years. The structure was commissioned by farmer and Stonehenge steward Timothy Daw, [1] and completed in 2014. [2]
The West Kennet Long Barrow, also known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Probably constructed in the thirty-seventh century BC , during Britain's Early Neolithic period, today it survives in a partially reconstructed state.