Events
Event - 2021 Open Days at the Soulton Long Barrow
Open Days at the barrow are hosted by our partners Sacred Stones. Please refer to this page of thier website for the most comprehensive information and for tickets, which are typically made available on that page around one month before the event.
The expected open days and events at the barrow are as follows in 2021:
- OPEN DAY -- 15 May
- PRIVATE PLACEMENT -- 19 June
- SUMMER SOLSTICE EVENT AND OPEN DAY -- 20 June
- OPEN DAY -- 10th July
- COVID STONE EVENT and OPEN DAY -- 07 August
- OPEN DAY -- 11 September
- OPEN DAY -- 09 October
- OPEN DAY -- 20 November
- WINTER SOLSTICE AND OPEN DAY -- 21 December
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Sacred Stones can assist with any urgent questions if you are at a point of need.
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Please follow @soultonhall on Twitter, @Souton Long Barrow on facebook and Sacred Stones on Eventbright to get updates on other days.
Story
The completion of the monument has attracted slightly overwhelming interst. The thread below, which shared the first images of the new chamber working on the solstice and tells the story of the project, for example has had around one million impressions.
I'm beginning tweeting at the #wintersolstice
— Farmers Of The UK (@FarmersOfTheUK) December 20, 2020
As I just explained, we just finished building a new monument, #soultonlongbarrow, which revives a prehistoric practice of building long barrows, not seen for 5,500 years
These are the first images of the new chamber ever shared pic.twitter.com/RHCQRisFHy
Solstices
Summer solstice sunrise at Soulton Long Barrow....
...and Winter Solstice Sun Set at Soulton Long barrow.
Dates
15th May 2022 - 20th December 2022
