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The Long Mound 1990-1
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By 1990 it had become clear that the Long Mound, which had been visible at the start of the dig, had concealed numerous earlier phases and monuments. At some point along its length, the earlier features originating at the Circle end must have ended, later buried by the Mound. This huge cutting in 1990 tried to understand what ended where. It is the part of the Mound which adjoins the circle (where the turf is in the photo above, looking NW). The cutting took two years to finish, and was extended a bit further along the mound in 1991 (right). The complex features at the SE end of the first Cairn phase are beyond the label next to the horizontal ranging pole in the righthand photo.
Looking SE along the Long Mound in 1990.