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III. The Excavation of the Giants' Hills Long Barrow, Skendleby, Lincolnshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2011

C. W. Phillips
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Before describing this excavation a few introductory remarks must be made on the circumstances which brought it about.

As early as 1924 Mr. O. G. S. Crawford was convinced from a study of the 6-inch maps that long barrows existed on the Lincolnshire Wolds, but the matter was not tested in the field until the writer began a general revision of the archaeological information on the Lincolnshire sheets in 1929. After a careful examination of the Wold area it became apparent that Mr. Crawford's belief was amply justified, and that an important group of long barrows existed between the Humber and the Wash. An account was given of these in the Archaeological Journal for 1932, and details of further discoveries were given in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Altogether eleven certain examples are known, two more have been destroyed, and there are two doubtful cases (fig. 1)

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Archaeologia , Volume 85 , 1936 , pp. 37 - 106
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1936

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