Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Five Knolls 5

Site number 128

Burial codes 5001 5005 5022 5023 5025 5028 5030 5035 5042 5046 5051 5065 5075 5091 5097 5102 5107 5112 5129 5143 5152 5153 5181 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4092 4101 4104 4106 4111 4125 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181

3500bc - 2500bc Barrow 5 (in a group of nine) was a ditched bowl barrow containing the primary burial in an oval grave 1m x 0.6m x 0.9m deep in the chalk of a 'slenderly built female of Mediterranean type' of middle age, sharply flexed on right side, accompanied by a ground edged flint flake knife placed under the right shoulder. In the ditch surrounding the area in which the burial was centred were two or three tines of deer horn in the original filling. There were also some Bronze Age sherds. This ditch was refilled when the barrow mound was enlarged. The primary burial appears to be of Neolithic date.

2500bc-14/1300bc About 3m E of the central primary inhumation was a cremation covered by an inverted collared urn, its mouth stopped with clay. The remains were of a male adult c35. Some 1.5m SE of the primary grave was a collection of cremated bone, wood ashes and burnt snail shells all placed in a shallow oval depression 0.75m x 0.45m x 8cm deep, and believed as likely Bronze Age in date.

Remains/Period Y5 Y4

County Bedfordshire

Region SE

National grid square TL

X coordinate 6

Y coordinate 210

Bibliographic source Dunning, Wheeler and Dingwall 1931, Kinnes 1979, Dyer 1991

Query

Site name	Five Knolls 5
Site number	128
Burial codes	5001 5005 5022 5023 5025 5028 5030 5035 5042 5046 5051 5065 5075 5091 5097 5102 5107 5112 5129 5143 5152 5153 5181 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4092 4101 4104 4106 4111 4125 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181
3500bc - 2500bc	Barrow 5 (in a group of nine) was a ditched bowl barrow containing the primary burial in an oval grave 1m x 0.6m x 0.9m deep in the chalk of a 'slenderly built female of Mediterranean type' of middle age, sharply flexed on right side, accompanied by a ground edged flint flake knife placed under the right shoulder. In the ditch surrounding the area in which the burial was centred were two or three tines of deer horn in the original filling. There were also some Bronze Age sherds. This ditch was refilled when the barrow mound was enlarged. The primary burial appears to be of Neolithic date.
2500bc-14/1300bc	About 3m E of the central primary inhumation was a cremation covered by an inverted collared urn, its mouth stopped with clay. The remains were of a male adult c35. Some 1.5m SE of the primary grave was a collection of cremated bone, wood ashes and burnt snail shells all placed in a shallow oval depression 0.75m x 0.45m x 8cm deep, and believed as likely Bronze Age in date.
Remains/Period	Y5 Y4
County	Bedfordshire
Region	SE
National grid square	TL
X coordinate	6
Y coordinate	210
Bibliographic source	Dunning, Wheeler and Dingwall 1931, Kinnes 1979, Dyer 1991