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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Lambourn Long Barrow, Lambourn Seven Barrows, Brk 2

Site number 131

Burial codes 5005 5009 5021 5024 5025 5028 5030 5032 5036 5042 5047 5051 5053 5065 5075 5084 5092 5098 5104 5111 5121 5143 5152 5156 5181 5200

3500bc - 2500bc A long barrow oriented ENE. Excavations in 1850-58 by Atkins probably found human skeletal material and black earth. There was Windmill Hill pottery below the primary silt of the ditch. The southern quarry ditch at the head of the barrow contained above the first year's primary silt, burnt stones, an adult femur with charcoal (see RC date), primary plain bowl sherds, animal bones and broken human skull cap (sweepings from the area of a fire?).

The mound had a core of small sarsen boulders beneath a rectangular turf stack capped by chalk rubble. At the head of the mound was a contracted adult female burial in rough cist with 2 perforated dog-whelk shells, but it was not datable.

RC: Charcoal from below the primary south ditch fill GX 1178 3415 +/- 180

Remains/Period Y5

County Berkshire

Region SE

National grid square SU

X coordinate 323

Y coordinate 834

Bibliographic source Grinsell 1936b, Case 1956-57, Wymer 1966, 1970

Query

Site name	Lambourn Long Barrow, Lambourn Seven Barrows, Brk 2
Site number	131
Burial codes	5005 5009 5021 5024 5025 5028 5030 5032 5036 5042 5047 5051 5053 5065 5075 5084 5092 5098 5104 5111 5121 5143 5152 5156 5181 5200
3500bc - 2500bc	A long barrow oriented ENE. Excavations in 1850-58 by Atkins probably found human skeletal material and black earth. There was Windmill Hill pottery below the primary silt of the ditch. The southern quarry ditch at the head of the barrow contained above the first year's primary silt, burnt stones, an adult femur with charcoal (see RC date), primary plain bowl sherds, animal bones and broken human skull cap (sweepings from the area of a fire?). The mound had a core of small sarsen boulders beneath a rectangular turf stack capped by chalk rubble. At the head of the mound was a contracted adult female burial in rough cist with 2 perforated dog-whelk shells, but it was not datable. RC: Charcoal from below the primary south ditch fill GX 1178 3415 +/- 180
Remains/Period	Y5
County	Berkshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	323
Y coordinate	834
Bibliographic source	Grinsell 1936b, Case 1956-57, Wymer 1966, 1970