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Site name Lambourn Seven Barrows 31

Site number 992

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4101 4104 4111 4122 4123 4125 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A miniature ditched bowl barrow containing the inhumation of an adult male lying on the left side, probably contracted. At the right shoulder was a fragmentary A Beaker, and a shale button with V-shaped perforation, a flint punch, an end-scraper and a waste flake with cortex. At the feet were 6 fine flint arrow heads with long barbs (3 undamaged) together with a flint flake with spur removed and used edge, and a well made square-ended flint knife flaked for hafting. Some glutinous material was on some of the arrow heads.

An ashy bed was spread over the burial, and near the surface was found 'a human jaw and other bones, also a stag's horn'.

Remains/Period Y4

County Berkshire

Region SE

National grid square SU

X coordinate 326

Y coordinate 831

Bibliographic source Case 1956-57

Query

Site name	Lambourn Seven Barrows 31
Site number	992
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4101 4104 4111 4122 4123 4125 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A miniature ditched bowl barrow containing the inhumation of an adult male lying on the left side, probably contracted. At the right shoulder was a fragmentary A Beaker, and a shale button with V-shaped perforation, a flint punch, an end-scraper and a waste flake with cortex. At the feet were 6 fine flint arrow heads with long barbs (3 undamaged) together with a flint flake with spur removed and used edge, and a well made square-ended flint knife flaked for hafting. Some glutinous material was on some of the arrow heads. An ashy bed was spread over the burial, and near the surface was found 'a human jaw and other bones, also a stag's horn'.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Berkshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	326
Y coordinate	831
Bibliographic source	Case 1956-57