Smith, I. F. and Simpson, D. D A. (1966). Excavation of a round barrow on Overton Hill, N Wiltshire. Proc Prehist Soc 32. Vol 32, pp. 122-155.
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Excavation of a round barrow on Overton Hill, N Wiltshire | ||||||||||||||||||
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Proc Prehist Soc 32 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society | ||||||||||||||||||
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32 | ||||||||||||||||||
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122 - 155 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The excavation of West Overton 6b revealed a complex sequence. Pre-funerary activity was indicated by Neolithic and Beaker sherds on and in the old land surface later to be covered by the mound. The first structural phase was marked by the building of an annular bank of flint and sarsen, covering two child inhumations and enclosing a central Beaker grave containing objects which suggested the interment was that of a leather-worker. Subsequent burials by inhumation and cremation, two in urns, were deposited in this central area, the interval between interments in some cases being of sufficient duration for the positions of earlier graves to have been forgotten. Grave-goods and other evidence, however, indicated that this period of deposition of burials belonged to the first phase of the Wessex Culture. Following the final deposit, the central area was covered by a layer of grey clay and a rough setting of sarsen boulders and subsequently by a primary turf stack and scraped-up mound. The barrow was re-used for the insertion of a number of pagan Saxon inhumations and evidence of more modern disturbance was discovered, particularly in the north-east quadrant. Information on bone and antler spatulae and 'sponge-finger stones' is collated and discussed. Au | ||||||||||||||||||
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1966 | ||||||||||||||||||
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05 Dec 2008 |