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Site name Tidenham 1, The Soldier's Tump
Site number 328
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4093 4102 4104 4110 4111 4121 4122 4123 4128 4143 4152 4154 4156 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc Round barrow with a central cairn and an outer stone ring. The mound was of earth and had no outer ditch. The mound contained charcoal, flint artefacts and chips, potsherds, fossil corals, and a small ring of fossil encrinoid stem, and a haematite nodule. There was a stone flag over the clay bottom, a pile of bones and ash on the flag, and 3 capstones of increasing size, the largest at the top, over the bone pile. The cist cover flags were luted by stiff clay in a sealing dome. The cist was in effect hermetically sealed. The cremated material was in a conical pile and was of an adult female and a very young child, accompanied by some charcoal, and with it a short bronze dagger, a bronze pin or awl, a flat tabular shale amulet with suspension hole, and 3 fossil encrinoid beads.

A subsidiary cist, contemporary with the first, was beneath the cairn under the outer edge with a small capstone covering a set of 9 smaller stones flush with the original surface, cut out of the bedrock. It was filled with cremated bones of one adult, charcoal and carbonaceous matter, and was not sealed as was the main cist. The ground surface was burnt.

The pottery fragments were of a secondary Neolithic A2 bowl, a developed overhanging rim urn of the Early to Middle Bronze Age, and a possible food vessel. The flints were Mesolithic and Early Bronze Age.
Remains/Period Y4
County Gloucestershire
Region SW
National grid square ST
X coordinate 553
Y coordinate 985
Bibliographic source Scott-Garrett 1955, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960


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