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Site name Gravelly Guy Barrow, Stanton Harcourt

Site number 1444

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4024 4025 4028 4030 4031 4043 4045 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4122 4123 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4157 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc The first phase of the barrow was a small turf-built platform or mound surrounded by a gully containing reveting posts. This was surrounded by a ditch with a narrow gap on its north west side. In the later phase a further ditch was dug and a mound built sealing the silting up of the inner ditch. In the central burial pit there were three inhumations and two cremations. The primary burial only survived as a skull fragment in the pit backfill.

The secondary inhumation had been laid in a coffin formed by four planks laid in a rectangle, with a lid over the body. The crouched burial was accompanied beside the head by a copper alloy dagger with antler pommel, and the badly decayed remains of a scabbard. Behind the back was a small fine late Beaker, and by the feet tucked into the corner of the coffin were an antler rod, a flint scraper, a whetstone, a wrist guard, a copper alloy pin and two flint flakes.

The shallower tertiary inhumation was accompanied by a large handled Beaker pot and a bronze pin. Two unaccompanied cremations had been inserted at a higher level.

Remains/Period Y4

County Oxfordshire

Region SE

National grid square SP

X coordinate 402

Y coordinate 52

Bibliographic source Lambrick and Moore 1987

Query

Site name	Gravelly Guy Barrow, Stanton Harcourt
Site number	1444
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4024 4025 4028 4030 4031 4043 4045 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4122 4123 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4157 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	The first phase of the barrow was a small turf-built platform or mound surrounded by a gully containing reveting posts. This was surrounded by a ditch with a narrow gap on its north west side. In the later phase a further ditch was dug and a mound built sealing the silting up of the inner ditch. In the central burial pit there were three inhumations and two cremations. The primary burial only survived as a skull fragment in the pit backfill. The secondary inhumation had been laid in a coffin formed by four planks laid in a rectangle, with a lid over the body. The crouched burial was accompanied beside the head by a copper alloy dagger with antler pommel, and the badly decayed remains of a scabbard. Behind the back was a small fine late Beaker, and by the feet tucked into the corner of the coffin were an antler rod, a flint scraper, a whetstone, a wrist guard, a copper alloy pin and two flint flakes. The shallower tertiary inhumation was accompanied by a large handled Beaker pot and a bronze pin. Two unaccompanied cremations had been inserted at a higher level.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Oxfordshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SP
X coordinate	402
Y coordinate	52
Bibliographic source	Lambrick and Moore 1987