Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

Background to the Gazetteer | Table of Contents


Query

Site name Galley Hill Barrow 4
Site number 948
Burial codes 1001 1005 1021 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1101 1107 1128 1143 1153 1181
100bc-AD43 A bowl barrow without a ditch. The turf was stripped to the natural orange clay. Near the barrow centre was deposited a quantity of Iron Age pottery mixed with wood ashes, the sherds being weathered and mostly of a hand made cordoned vase (Burchell's Type 1A) or vessels with either bead rim or finger nail impressed shoulder decoration. Their date was thought mid-1st Century BC. The clay upcast from the (?)burial pit covered this deposit, and an adult male of middle age was buried in the grave, the remains being much disturbed later. The grave was filled and the mound constructed of local orange clay.
Remains/Period Y1
County Bedfordshire
Region SE
National grid square TL
X coordinate 92
Y coordinate 269
Bibliographic source Dyer 1974


Query

© Internet Archaeology/Author(s)
Last updated: Tues Aug 10 2004