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The Excavation of A Round Barrow Near Poor's Heath, Risby, Suffolk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

F. de M.  and
H. L. Vatcher
H. L. Vatcher
Affiliation:
Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury, Marlborough, Wilts
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Summary

This round barrow, a bowl type, was built in two phases, its construction and use extending from about 1600–1400 bc (2000–1675 B.C.). The first mound was constructed with a mixture of chalk and sand from an oval ditch, covering a contracted burial of a child in a grave cut out of the chalk. The child was accompanied by a hybrid beaker. In the second phase the centre of the first mound was removed and partly pulled back into the ditch, and a contracted burial of an adult accompanied by a late beaker interred just off centre of a new mound built of sand covering the first, and capped in chalk obtained from a second ditch. Either simultaneously, or within a very short time a further burial, unaccompanied, in a tree-trunk coffin, was placed nearby, and this was followed by subsequent interments, the earliest of which was accompanied by jet beads and a spacer plate. Finally a further digging out of the mound took place on the east side to establish a cremation area, afterwards mounded over.

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 42 , December 1976 , pp. 263 - 292
Copyright
Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1976

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