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Site name Swell 1, Cow Common (W)

Site number 360

Burial codes 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4048 4051 4065 4071 4081 4093 4098 4101 4104 4107 4111 4112 4128 4129 4143 4152 4154 4159 4161 4181 3001 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3084 3092 3098 3104 3107 3112 3124 3129 3130 3152 3154 3161 3181

2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow with the cairn overlaid by an earth coating covered by oolitic slabs, carefully laid. There was a central primary crouched interment of an adult male past middle life, on its left side, head to NNE in an oval slab-lined grave. Near the bones were many pieces of charcoal.

Inserted into the mound were secondary interments of an adult cremation beneath a Middle/Late Bronze Age (or E/MBA?) inverted urn. With the bones in this urn was a Class 1B bronze razor which had been burnt in the pyre. The deposit was covered by a slab.

14/1300bc-8/700bc Over the slab covering the earlier adult cremation was a cremation of an aged adult beneath a Late Bronze Age bucket urn. From the earth stratum was recovered a flint scraper, a burnt flint (a scraper?), a worn quartzite pebble, and a pot rim with twisted thong decoration.

Remains/Period Y4 Y3

County Gloucestershire

Region SW

National grid square SP

X coordinate 132

Y coordinate 263

Bibliographic source Greenwell 1877, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960

Query

Site name	Swell 1, Cow Common (W)
Site number	360
Burial codes	4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4048 4051 4065 4071 4081 4093 4098 4101 4104 4107 4111 4112 4128 4129 4143 4152 4154 4159 4161 4181 3001 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3084 3092 3098 3104 3107 3112 3124 3129 3130 3152 3154 3161 3181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A round barrow with the cairn overlaid by an earth coating covered by oolitic slabs, carefully laid. There was a central primary crouched interment of an adult male past middle life, on its left side, head to NNE in an oval slab-lined grave. Near the bones were many pieces of charcoal. Inserted into the mound were secondary interments of an adult cremation beneath a Middle/Late Bronze Age (or E/MBA?) inverted urn. With the bones in this urn was a Class 1B bronze razor which had been burnt in the pyre. The deposit was covered by a slab.
14/1300bc-8/700bc	Over the slab covering the earlier adult cremation was a cremation of an aged adult beneath a Late Bronze Age bucket urn. From the earth stratum was recovered a flint scraper, a burnt flint (a scraper?), a worn quartzite pebble, and a pot rim with twisted thong decoration.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y3
County	Gloucestershire
Region	SW
National grid square	SP
X coordinate	132
Y coordinate	263
Bibliographic source	Greenwell 1877, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960