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Chestnuts Long Barrow, also known as Stony Warren or Long Warren, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Addington in the south-eastern English county of Kent.^[1]

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Archaeological sites in Kent
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Addington Long Barrow

Addington Long Barrow is a chambered long barrow located near the village of Addington in the southeastern English county of Kent. Chestnuts Long Barrow and Addington Long Barrow are archaeological sites in Kent, barrows in England, megalithic monuments in England, stone Age sites in Kent and Tonbridge and Malling.

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Addington, Kent

Addington is a village in the English county of Kent.

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Albert Egges van Giffen

Albert Egges van Giffen (14 March 1884 – 31 May 1973) was a Dutch archaeologist.

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Amygdaloideae

Amygdaloideae is a subfamily within the flowering plant family Rosaceae.

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Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1882

The Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then was).

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Animism

Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.

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Anno Domini

The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Antiquarian

An antiquarian or antiquary is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past.

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Archaeological excavation

In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Blue Bell Hill

Blue Bell Hill is a chalk hill between Maidstone and Rochester in the English county of Kent. Chestnuts Long Barrow and Blue Bell Hill are archaeological sites in Kent, stone Age sites in Kent and Tonbridge and Malling.

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British Iron Age

The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.

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Bronze Age Britain

Bronze Age Britain is an era of British history that spanned from until.

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Burial

Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects.

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Caroline Malone

Caroline Ann Tuke Malone (born 10 October 1957) is a British academic and archaeologist.

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Close Roll

The Close Rolls are an administrative record created in medieval England, Wales, Ireland and the Channel Islands by the royal chancery, in order to preserve a central record of all letters close issued by the chancery in the name of the Crown.

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Coffin Stone

The Coffin Stone, also known as the Coffin and the Table Stone, is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Chestnuts Long Barrow and Coffin Stone are archaeological sites in Kent, megalithic monuments in England, stone Age sites in Kent and Tonbridge and Malling.

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Coldrum Long Barrow

The Coldrum Long Barrow, also known as the Coldrum Stones and the Adscombe Stones, is a chambered long barrow located near the village of Trottiscliffe in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Chestnuts Long Barrow and Coldrum Long Barrow are archaeological sites in Kent, megalithic monuments in England, stone Age sites in Kent and Tonbridge and Malling.

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Continental Europe

Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Cotswold-Severn Group

The Cotswold-Severn Group are a series of long barrows erected in an area of western Britain during the Early Neolithic.

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Countless stones

The countless stones is a motif that appears in English and Welsh folklore.

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Cremation

Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.

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Dry stone

Dry stone, sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Glossary of archaeology

This page is a glossary of archaeology, the study of the human past from material remains.

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Glyn Daniel

Glyn Edmund Daniel (23 April 1914 – 13 December 1986) was a Welsh scientist and archaeologist who taught at Cambridge University, where he specialised in the European Neolithic period.

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Holly

Ilex or holly is a genus of over 570 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family.

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Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat, and/or by hunting game (pursuing and/or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish).

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Iconoclasm

Iconoclasm (from Greek: label + label)From lit.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ ''WYTE'') is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent.

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John Harris (writer)

John Harris (c. 1666 – 7 September 1719) was an English writer, scientist, and Anglican priest.

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Kent

Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.

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Kit's Coty House

Kit's Coty House or Kit's Coty is a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county of Kent. Chestnuts Long Barrow and Kit's Coty House are archaeological sites in Kent, barrows in England, stone Age sites in Kent and Tonbridge and Malling.

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Knapping

Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian, or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls, and flushwork decoration.

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Leslie Grinsell

Leslie Valentine Grinsell (14 February 1907 – 28 February 1995) was an English archaeologist and museum curator.

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Little Kit's Coty House

Little Kit's Coty House, also known as Lower Kit's Coty House and the Countless Stones, is a chambered long barrow located near to the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county of Kent. Chestnuts Long Barrow and Little Kit's Coty House are archaeological sites in Kent, barrows in England, stone Age sites in Kent and Tonbridge and Malling.

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Long barrow

Long barrows are a style of monument constructed across Western Europe in the fifth and fourth millennia BCE, during the Early Neolithic period.

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Low Countries

The Low Countries (de Lage Landen; les Pays-Bas), historically also known as the Netherlands (de Nederlanden), is a coastal lowland region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and consisting today of the three modern "Benelux" countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (Nederland, which is singular).

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Lower Greensand Group

The Lower Greensand Group is a geological unit present across large areas of Southern England.

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Maidstone Museum

Maidstone Museum is a local authority-run museum located in Maidstone, Kent, England, featuring internationally important collections including fine art, natural history, and human history.

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Medway Megaliths

The Medway Megaliths, sometimes termed the Kentish Megaliths, are a group of Early Neolithic chambered long barrows and other megalithic monuments located in the lower valley of the River Medway in Kent, South-East England. Chestnuts Long Barrow and Medway Megaliths are archaeological sites in Kent, megalithic monuments in England and stone Age sites in Kent.

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Megalith

A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.

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Mesolithic

The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

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Monolith

A monolith is a geological feature consisting of a single massive stone or rock, such as some mountains.

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Neolithic British Isles

The Neolithic period in the British Isles lasted from 4100 to 2,500 BC.

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North Downs

The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent.

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Paddock

A paddock is a small enclosure for horses.

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Pastoralism

Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds.

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Paul Ashbee

Paul Ashbee (23 June 1918 – 19 August 2009) was a leading British archaeologist, noted for his many excavations of barrows, or burial mounds, and for co-directing the Sutton Hoo digs (with Rupert Bruce-Mitford) from 1964 to 1972.

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Picnic

A picnic is a meal taken outdoors (''al fresco'') as part of an excursion, especially in scenic surroundings, such as a park, lakeside, or other place affording an interesting view, or else in conjunction with a public event such as preceding an open-air theater performance, and usually in summer or spring.

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Reconstruction (architecture)

Reconstruction in architectural conservation is the returning of a place to a known earlier state by the introduction of new materials.

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Richard Bradley (archaeologist)

Richard John Bradley, (born 18 November 1946) is a British archaeologist and academic.

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River Medway

The River Medway is a river in South East England.

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River Thames

The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Ronald Hutton

Ronald Edmund Hutton (born 19 December 1953) is an English historian specialising in early modern Britain, British folklore, pre-Christian religion, and modern paganism.

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Ruins

Ruins are the remains of a civilization's architecture.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Sarsen

Sarsen stones are silicified sandstone blocks found extensively across southern England on the Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire; in Kent; and in smaller quantities in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Dorset, and Hampshire. Chestnuts Long Barrow and Sarsen are megalithic monuments in England.

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Scheduled monument

In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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Sharpening stone

Sharpening stones, or whetstones, are used to sharpen the edges of steel tools such as knives through grinding and honing.

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Shrine

A shrine (scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: escrin "box or case") is a sacred space dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon, or similar figure of respect, wherein they are venerated or worshipped.

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Smythe's Megalith

Smythe's Megalith, also known as the Warren Farm Chamber, was a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Chestnuts Long Barrow and Smythe's Megalith are archaeological sites in Kent, megalithic monuments in England, stone Age sites in Kent and Tonbridge and Malling.

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Society of Antiquaries of London

The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom.

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South East England

South East England is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.

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Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. Chestnuts Long Barrow and Stonehenge are megalithic monuments in England.

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Stuart Piggott

Stuart Ernest Piggott, (28 May 1910 – 23 September 1996) was a British archaeologist, best known for his work on prehistoric Wessex.

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Temple

A temple (from the Latin templum) is a place of worship, a building used for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice.

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The Folklore Society

The Folklore Society (FLS) is a registered charity under English law based in London, England for the study of folklore.

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The Hurlers (stone circles)

The Hurlers (Cornish: An Hurlysi) is a group of three stone circles in the civil parish of St Cleer, Cornwall, England, UK.

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The Megalithic Portal

The Megalithic Portal is a web resource dedicated to prehistoric archaeology and closely related subjects.

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The Modern Antiquarian

The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain is a guide book written by Julian Cope, published in 1998.

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Tobacco pipe

A tobacco pipe, often called simply a pipe, is a device specifically made to smoke tobacco.

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Topsoil

Topsoil is the upper layer of soil.

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Trapezoid

In geometry, a trapezoid in North American English, or trapezium in British English, is a quadrilateral that has one pair of parallel sides.

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Trilithon

A trilithon or trilith is a structure consisting of two large vertical stones (posts) supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top (lintel).

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Tumulus

A tumulus (tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Veneration of the dead

The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased.

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Warren (burrow)

A warren is a network of interconnected burrows, dug by rabbits.

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Wattle and daub

Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.

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White Horse Stone

The White Horse Stone is a name given to two separate sarsen megaliths on the slopes of Blue Bell Hill, near the village of Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Chestnuts Long Barrow and White Horse Stone are archaeological sites in Kent, megalithic monuments in England and Tonbridge and Malling.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnuts_Long_Barrow

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See also

Archaeological sites in Kent

Stone Age sites in Kent

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