Simpson, D. D A. (1967). Timber mortuary houses and earthen long barrows. Antiquity 42. Vol 42, pp. 142-144.
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Timber mortuary houses and earthen long barrows | |||||||||||||||
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Antiquity 42 | |||||||||||||||
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Antiquity | |||||||||||||||
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42 | |||||||||||||||
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142 - 144 | |||||||||||||||
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There is little evidence of direct links between British earthen long barrows and E European (TRB) cultures. The difficulty of tracing sources for our earliest Neolithic pottery has forced archaeologists to seek less equivocal clues in excavated field monuments; and evidence from Fussell's Lodge and Wayland's Smithy, together with reinterpretation of much older excavations, appeared to confirm a tradition of Eastern-derived timber mortuary houses beneath earthen long barrows. However, at Fussell's Lodge the disposition of the bones in relation to the axial pits does not altogether support the theory of a collapsed gabled structure, and the evidence from 18th-19th cent excavations is mostly too imprecise to admit of similar interpretation. Undoubted mortuary houses are rare, and some recently excavated long barrows (see 68/168) have shown no evidence for them. The closest Continental parallel, the Konens Høj mortuary house, had no long mound and only one burial. | |||||||||||||||
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1967 | |||||||||||||||
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05 Dec 2008 |
