Further Information

Further reading:

Ashbee, P. 1970 The Earthen Long Barrow in Britain. London: Dent.

Darvill, T. 2004 Long barrows of the Cotswolds and surrounding areas. Stroud: Tempus.

Lynch, F. 1997 Megalithic Tombs and Long Barrows in Britain. Shire Publication 73.

Whittle, A. 1991 'Wayland’s Smithy, Oxfordshire: excavations at the Neolithic tomb in 1962-63 by R. J. C. Atkinson and S. Piggott'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 57(2): 61-101.

Whittle, A., Bayliss, A. and Wysocki, M. 2007 'Once in a lifetime: the Date of the Wayland’s Smithy Long Barrow'. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Volume 17, Supplement S1: 103- 121.

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