Figure 1 - Specimen ground plans of the main types of oval barrows.

1.1 Enclosed linear zone burials under a ditched mound: Wor Barrow (Dorset)

1.2 Unenclosed linear zone burials under a ditched mound: Wayland's Smithy I (Oxfordshire) [After Atkinson, R J C, 1965, "Excavations at Waylands Smithy long barrow, Berkshire". Antiquity, 39, 126-33 (esp. pp.127-31)]

1.3 Enclosed pit grave under a ditched mound: Barrow Hills, Abingdon (Oxforshire)

1.4 Enclosed pit grave under a ditchedless mound: Maxey site 61 (Cambridgeshire)

1.5 Unenclosed pit grave under a ditched mound: Alfriston (East Sussex) [After Drewett, P, 1975, "The excavation of an oval burial mound of the third millennium BC at Alfriston, East Sussex, 1974". Proc Prehist Soc, 41, 119-52

1.6 Unenclosed graveless platform under a ditched mound: Thickthorn Down (Dorset) [After Drew, C D, & Piggott, S, 1936, "The excavation of long barrow 163a on Thickthorn Down, Dorset". Proc Prehist Soc, 2, 77-96