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Description: | An Early Bronze Age round cairn on top of a Neolithic oval barrow. Excavations in 1848 revealed a cist containing a cremation and food vessel. A Neolithic flint arrowhead and axe fragment, and cremated human bones, were found associated with the oval barrow, a cist containing a cremation and a food vessel were found in association with the round barrow. An iron fibula was also found in the Neolithic barrow indicating Roman or Anglian reuse. | Subjects: | Cremation Round Cairn Oval Barrow Religious Ritual And Funerary Findspot Cist | Source: | English Heritage - Viewfinder | Creator: | National Monuments Record | Identifier: | http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk... | Language: | en | Go to resource |
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