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Site name Guiting Power 3

Site number 1454

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4036 4041 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4085 4093 4098 4102 4106 4108 4109 4128 4129 4141 4151 4152 4153 4160 4181 4200

2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow with ditch, of Early Bronze Age date and with evidence for axial alignment towards the NW, constructed in these phases:

Phase 1 Two arcs of burnt material from low intensity fires were laid out partly enclosing a circular area c18m in diameter around the centre of the monument. Trampling marks were evident within the enclosed area. Burnt posts and an ox bone may represent an offering. There was a line of 3 stake holes in the northern area of burning.

Phase 2 The debris was cleared and a clay layer was spread up to c25cm thick. It was level except where it overlay an intact charred ox bone and the burnt stakes.

Phase 3 A ring of 65 posts was driven through the clay, c13.4m in diameter with a gap in the SE. Pottery (including a biconical urn and a beaker-related vessel) was smashed over one part of the interior with trampling marks nearby.

Phase 4 The post ring was demolished and fires were laid in a small central zone surrounded by an outer ring. The cremated bones of a female c30-45 mixed with those of an almost full-term foetus were placed perhaps in a shallow pit at the centre of the site with an oval, point-decorated miniature vessel nearby. Scattered cremated bone suggests the pyre was in the central area.

Phase 5 Working from the centre the area was mounded with silty clay possibly mixed with turf from the ring ditch, then more silty clay and then with material from a more domestic source resulting in a cone of sediment enriched with flint working debris. The cremation of a child c3 was inserted in a shallow deposit without grave goods in the flank of the mound, with a small spread of charcoal nearby.

Phase 6 The edge of the mound was reveted with rubble dug from the ditch. Short lengths of slab kerbing appeared at one point on the mound edge.

In the western half of the berm several features were cut, supposed to be of Bronze Age date. They included a shallow pit with a burnt base, a deep pit containing much charcoal, freshly struck flintwork and Early Bronze Age pottery. Two cremations also occurred, each in a pit without grave goods, one a child and one an infant.

RC: from charcoal associated with the central cremation RCD-726 1610 +/- 60

Remains/Period Y4

County Gloucestershire

Region SW

National grid square SP

X coordinate 96

Y coordinate 245

Bibliographic source Marshall 1991, 1992a/b, 1993

Query

Site name	Guiting Power 3
Site number	1454
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4036 4041 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4085 4093 4098 4102 4106 4108 4109 4128 4129 4141 4151 4152 4153 4160 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc	A round barrow with ditch, of Early Bronze Age date and with evidence for axial alignment towards the NW, constructed in these phases: Phase 1 Two arcs of burnt material from low intensity fires were laid out partly enclosing a circular area c18m in diameter around the centre of the monument. Trampling marks were evident within the enclosed area. Burnt posts and an ox bone may represent an offering. There was a line of 3 stake holes in the northern area of burning. Phase 2 The debris was cleared and a clay layer was spread up to c25cm thick. It was level except where it overlay an intact charred ox bone and the burnt stakes. Phase 3 A ring of 65 posts was driven through the clay, c13.4m in diameter with a gap in the SE. Pottery (including a biconical urn and a beaker-related vessel) was smashed over one part of the interior with trampling marks nearby. Phase 4 The post ring was demolished and fires were laid in a small central zone surrounded by an outer ring. The cremated bones of a female c30-45 mixed with those of an almost full-term foetus were placed perhaps in a shallow pit at the centre of the site with an oval, point-decorated miniature vessel nearby. Scattered cremated bone suggests the pyre was in the central area. Phase 5 Working from the centre the area was mounded with silty clay possibly mixed with turf from the ring ditch, then more silty clay and then with material from a more domestic source resulting in a cone of sediment enriched with flint working debris. The cremation of a child c3 was inserted in a shallow deposit without grave goods in the flank of the mound, with a small spread of charcoal nearby. Phase 6 The edge of the mound was reveted with rubble dug from the ditch. Short lengths of slab kerbing appeared at one point on the mound edge. In the western half of the berm several features were cut, supposed to be of Bronze Age date. They included a shallow pit with a burnt base, a deep pit containing much charcoal, freshly struck flintwork and Early Bronze Age pottery. Two cremations also occurred, each in a pit without grave goods, one a child and one an infant. RC: from charcoal associated with the central cremation RCD-726 1610 +/- 60
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Gloucestershire
Region	SW
National grid square	SP
X coordinate	96
Y coordinate	245
Bibliographic source	Marshall 1991, 1992a/b, 1993