Bronze Age round barrows, Yatesbury
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Bronze Age round barrows, Yatesbury
Image: © Vieve Forward Taken: 6 Dec 2014
Two Bronze Age round barrows can just about be made out here as low lenses of green on the nearest horizon. To the left is a bowl barrow, in which a primary cremation in a tree-trunk coffin was found, which also contained a bronze dagger with two rivets, when it was opened by Merewether in the 1849. http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/artsheritageandlibraries/museumhistoryheritage/wiltshireandswindonhistoricenvironmentrecord/wshermap.htm?a=d&id=29190 To the right is a bowl barrow, also opened by Merewether in 1849, who found a primary cremation. http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/artsheritageandlibraries/museumhistoryheritage/wiltshireandswindonhistoricenvironmentrecord/wshermap.htm?a=d&id=29191 Intrusive Saxon inhumations were also supposedly found in this barrow, one with a knife, three earthenware beads and a metal box with chain, although there may be some confusion here, as Wiltshire and Swindon Historical Environment Record states that these were found "during the levelling of a barrow in 1833". Perhaps they were found under another barrow which was levelled, or when this one was reduced in height. http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/artsheritageandlibraries/museumhistoryheritage/wiltshireandswindonhistoricenvironmentrecord/wshermap.htm?a=d&id=29134
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