Julliberrie's Grave

Julliberrie's Grave is an unchambered earthen Neolithic long barrow in the English county of Kent. It is situated near Chilham overlooking the River Stour on the Julliberrie Downs at Ordnance Survey, grid reference TR077532. The Stour Valley Walk passes close to the site.

It is 44 metres (144 ft) in length, 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high and measures 15 metres (49 ft) at its widest although it was originally longer. Eighteenth century chalk extraction has destroyed the northern end. This lost part is likely to have been where burials would have been placed although the mound may not have contained any inhumations at all. The north north east - south south west oriented earthwork has produced some evidence of Neolithic activity at the site but considerably more later evidence.

It is one of a number of prehistoric barrows overlooking the Stour valley including recently-identified long barrows at Elmsted and Boughton Aluph and the Jacket's Field long barrow in the Wye Forest along with a number of later round barrows. The Julliberrie name is likely to derive from antiquarian speculation although the folk etymology is that it is the burial site of a giant named Julaber. A popular early explanation was that it was the grave of a Roman tribune, Quintus Laberius Durus, mentioned in Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars as being slain by the Britons and Jul Laber therefore being a corruption of ' Julius', Laberius'.