Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Site name Swell I, Cow Common Lane, Glo 22

Site number 32

Burial codes 5005 5009 5021 5024 5025 5028 5030 5033 5042 5048 5051 5053 5065 5075 5084 5093 5098 5104 5109 5110 5125 5127 5143 5152 5155 5156 5159 5181 5183

3500bc - 2500bc Long barrow whose mound was made of limestone slabs and rubble surrounded by a drystone wall, oriented SSE, of chambered or cist construction. On north east side in a chamber c1m square were 3 skeletons, and outside it to the south west were 5 skeletons [from the 1867 and 1874 excavations]. In an oval chamber c1.8m x 1.3m and 9m from the east end of the mound, and oriented NS, were the bones of two adults, 1 infant, flint, animal bone and pottery. The bones were laid on 'slatey rubble' and not on the natural soil. There is some suggestion that one body was deposited headless. There were bones of ox, sheep and pig, and 'quantities of ash and charcoal'. At the east end there was a different structure with deposits of ashes between slabs along and beside the central line. The chambers in the barrow may have been cists.

Remains/Period Y5

County Gloucestershire

Region SW

National grid square SP

X coordinate 135

Y coordinate 263

Bibliographic source Rolleston 1876, Greenwell 1877, Crawford 1925, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960

Query

Site name	Swell I, Cow Common Lane, Glo 22
Site number	32
Burial codes	5005 5009 5021 5024 5025 5028 5030 5033 5042 5048 5051 5053 5065 5075 5084 5093 5098 5104 5109 5110 5125 5127 5143 5152 5155 5156 5159 5181 5183
3500bc - 2500bc	Long barrow whose mound was made of limestone slabs and rubble surrounded by a drystone wall, oriented SSE, of chambered or cist construction. On north east side in a chamber c1m square were 3 skeletons, and outside it to the south west were 5 skeletons [from the 1867 and 1874 excavations]. In an oval chamber c1.8m x 1.3m and 9m from the east end of the mound, and oriented NS, were the bones of two adults, 1 infant, flint, animal bone and pottery. The bones were laid on 'slatey rubble' and not on the natural soil. There is some suggestion that one body was deposited headless. There were bones of ox, sheep and pig, and 'quantities of ash and charcoal'. At the east end there was a different structure with deposits of ashes between slabs along and beside the central line. The chambers in the barrow may have been cists.
Remains/Period	Y5
County	Gloucestershire
Region	SW
National grid square	SP
X coordinate	135
Y coordinate	263
Bibliographic source	Rolleston 1876, Greenwell 1877, Crawford 1925, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960