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Site name Preshute 1a, The Manton Barrow

Site number 628

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4032 4036 4042 4048 4051 4053 4065 4073 4084 4091 4094 4102 4107 4121 4123 4129 4143 4152 4153 4169 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with double ditches broken at least on the north east side. The barrow mound contained small quantities of flint, sarsen stone, animal bone (ox, pig, sheep, deer, and fox), and charcoal. There was a central interment on the old ground surface of an old female, crouched, on its left side, oriented head to SE. About 0.3-0.45m in front of the body was a clay and broken bone mixture, a possible food offering. The body had been covered with turves and was accompanied by many grave goods: a small bronze blade with amber pommel; an earthenware stud (by the neck a barrel shaped lignite bead with gold capped ends and three encircling bands of gold (each cap having 3 incised lines decorating it a slightly convex disc of red amber framed in borders of thin gold each engraved back and front with 6 concentric lines with regular depressed dots in them, and the rim with two parallel incised lines one of them joining the two borders, the rim having 2 holes bored in it for suspension of the disc; a small bronze blade (?razor) set in a gold sheathed wooden core with lines of incised decoration on the sheathing; 150 small circular jet beads; a fossil encrinite bead; 5 amber beads; 3 tanged bronze awls; a small bronze dagger blade; a fluted black jet bead, a soft pink stone bead, a chalk like bead (these last three at the skeleton's feet a perfect grape cup and an incense cup with the dots and lines filled in with a white substance. Both the last were placed at the back of the skeleton.

The ground above and below the skeleton was clayey and had received the imprint of a coarse cloth in which the body had been wrapped, although there were some traces of a finer weave. There were vestiges of wood around the head, possibly a protective guard for the head and the objects laid by it. 2.7m south of the central inhumation and 0.35m below the present surface was a broken collared urn with no sign of cremation material and possibly holding a food offering placed when the mound was built.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 165

Y coordinate 691

Bibliographic source Cunnington M E 1907

Query

Site name	Preshute 1a, The Manton Barrow
Site number	628
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4032 4036 4042 4048 4051 4053 4065 4073 4084 4091 4094 4102 4107 4121 4123 4129 4143 4152 4153 4169 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with double ditches broken at least on the north east side. The barrow mound contained small quantities of flint, sarsen stone, animal bone (ox, pig, sheep, deer, and fox), and charcoal. There was a central interment on the old ground surface of an old female, crouched, on its left side, oriented head to SE. About 0.3-0.45m in front of the body was a clay and broken bone mixture, a possible food offering. The body had been covered with turves and was accompanied by many grave goods: a small bronze blade with amber pommel; an earthenware stud (by the neck a barrel shaped lignite bead with gold capped ends and three encircling bands of gold (each cap having 3 incised lines decorating it a slightly convex disc of red amber framed in borders of thin gold each engraved back and front with 6 concentric lines with regular depressed dots in them, and the rim with two parallel incised lines one of them joining the two borders, the rim having 2 holes bored in it for suspension of the disc; a small bronze blade (?razor) set in a gold sheathed wooden core with lines of incised decoration on the sheathing; 150 small circular jet beads; a fossil encrinite bead; 5 amber beads; 3 tanged bronze awls; a small bronze dagger blade; a fluted black jet bead, a soft pink stone bead, a chalk like bead (these last three at the skeleton's feet a perfect grape cup and an incense cup with the dots and lines filled in with a white substance. Both the last were placed at the back of the skeleton. The ground above and below the skeleton was clayey and had received the imprint of a coarse cloth in which the body had been wrapped, although there were some traces of a finer weave. There were vestiges of wood around the head, possibly a protective guard for the head and the objects laid by it. 2.7m south of the central inhumation and 0.35m below the present surface was a broken collared urn with no sign of cremation material and possibly holding a food offering placed when the mound was built.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	165
Y coordinate	691
Bibliographic source	Cunnington M E 1907