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Site name | Swell I, Cow Common Lane, Glo 22 |
Site number | 32 |
Burial codes | 5005 5009 5021 5024 5025 5028 5030 5033 5042 5048 5051 5053 5065 5075 5084 5093 5098 5104 5109 5110 5125 5127 5143 5152 5155 5156 5159 5181 5183 |
3500bc - 2500bc | Long barrow whose mound was made of limestone slabs and rubble surrounded by a drystone wall, oriented SSE, of chambered or cist construction. On north east side in a chamber c1m square were 3 skeletons, and outside it to the south west were 5 skeletons [from the 1867 and 1874 excavations]. In an oval chamber c1.8m x 1.3m and 9m from the east end of the mound, and oriented NS, were the bones of two adults, 1 infant, flint, animal bone and pottery. The bones were laid on 'slatey rubble' and not on the natural soil. There is some suggestion that one body was deposited headless. There were bones of ox, sheep and pig, and 'quantities of ash and charcoal'. At the east end there was a different structure with deposits of ashes between slabs along and beside the central line. The chambers in the barrow may have been cists. |
Remains/Period | Y5 |
County | Gloucestershire |
Region | SW |
National grid square | SP |
X coordinate | 135 |
Y coordinate | 263 |
Bibliographic source | Rolleston 1876, Greenwell 1877, Crawford 1925, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960 |
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