A Barrow-Cemetery of the Second Millennium B.C. in Wiltshire, England

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1968

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Patricia M. Christie, Rosemary Powers, Don Brothwell, R. F. Newell, I. W. Cornwall, M. P. Kerney

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society

Fine Round BarrowEastern OutlierArchaeological ExcavationBeacon HillArchaeologyLanguage StudiesSedimentologyBurial PracticesSecond Millennium B.c

Abstract

The fine round barrow described below was the second of two excavated on behalf of the Ministry of Public Building and Works during the summer of 1961. The site, which is on Upper Chalk with Flint, is the eastern outlier of a linear barrow cemetery on Earl's Farm Down, and lies at 400 feet on the western slope of Beacon Hill (fig. 1) south of the main Amesbury-Andover road (O.S. National Grid: SU/184419, Sheet 167).