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Site name Lambourn Seven Barrows 17

Site number 991

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4101 4104 4108 4110 4111 4123 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A small saucer barrow with outer bank, containing two graves. The primary grave contained the contracted skeleton of a male child lying on the left side, accompanied by a C Beaker with 5 small holes bored at the foot, and a nest of flint flakes at the feet: six waste flakes, a simple half moon scraper, a simple end scraper, and a flake with tiny marks of use. Some glutinous material lay around the flints. A bed of ashes covered the burial.

There was a secondary inhumation above in the same grave, of an adult male, contracted, with behind the right shoulder a finely made, freshly minted flint dagger of Beaker culture type with the tang, with the same glutinous substance on it, pointing diagonally across the grave. Also by the shoulder was a nodule of iron pyrites, and a strike-a-light flint flake.

0.9m to the south was a second grave, circular, containing the bones of a child and a small vessel variously described as an urn, drinking cup or a 'pot broken' and possibly a small C Beaker.

Remains/Period Y4

County Berkshire

Region SE

National grid square SU

X coordinate 330

Y coordinate 830

Bibliographic source Case 1956-57

Query

Site name	Lambourn Seven Barrows 17
Site number	991
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4101 4104 4108 4110 4111 4123 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A small saucer barrow with outer bank, containing two graves. The primary grave contained the contracted skeleton of a male child lying on the left side, accompanied by a C Beaker with 5 small holes bored at the foot, and a nest of flint flakes at the feet: six waste flakes, a simple half moon scraper, a simple end scraper, and a flake with tiny marks of use. Some glutinous material lay around the flints. A bed of ashes covered the burial. There was a secondary inhumation above in the same grave, of an adult male, contracted, with behind the right shoulder a finely made, freshly minted flint dagger of Beaker culture type with the tang, with the same glutinous substance on it, pointing diagonally across the grave. Also by the shoulder was a nodule of iron pyrites, and a strike-a-light flint flake. 0.9m to the south was a second grave, circular, containing the bones of a child and a small vessel variously described as an urn, drinking cup or a 'pot broken' and possibly a small C Beaker.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Berkshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	330
Y coordinate	830
Bibliographic source	Case 1956-57