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Site name | Gravelly Guy Barrow, Stanton Harcourt |
Site number | 1444 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4024 4025 4028 4030 4031 4043 4045 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4122 4123 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4157 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | The first phase of the barrow was a small turf-built platform or mound surrounded by a gully containing reveting posts. This was surrounded by a ditch with a narrow gap on its north west side. In the later phase a further ditch was dug and a mound built sealing the silting up of the inner ditch. In the central burial pit there were three inhumations and two cremations. The primary burial only survived as a skull fragment in the pit backfill. The secondary inhumation had been laid in a coffin formed by four planks laid in a rectangle, with a lid over the body. The crouched burial was accompanied beside the head by a copper alloy dagger with antler pommel, and the badly decayed remains of a scabbard. Behind the back was a small fine late Beaker, and by the feet tucked into the corner of the coffin were an antler rod, a flint scraper, a whetstone, a wrist guard, a copper alloy pin and two flint flakes. The shallower tertiary inhumation was accompanied by a large handled Beaker pot and a bronze pin. Two unaccompanied cremations had been inserted at a higher level. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Oxfordshire |
Region | SE |
National grid square | SP |
X coordinate | 402 |
Y coordinate | 52 |
Bibliographic source | Lambrick and Moore 1987 |
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