A barrow is a Stone Age burial mound made of soil with burial chambers inside. The chambers are made of large slabs of rock.

There are many shapes of barrow. Some are long ovals, and called long barrows, while others are smaller and round and known as round barrows.

Barrows were for chieftains. Even the huge long barrows have burial chambers inside them for just a few people. Long barrows often have giant standing stones at one end, and these were the stones that represented the entrance to the barrow and the home of the dead. No one except the priests were allowed beyond the stones and into the barrow corridor.