[{"id": 135628, "created": "2020-03-20T10:22:56.496680", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 83855, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-03-20T11:02:59.123452", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SU 1196;6835", "Site": "WILTSHIRE; WEST OVERTON;Barrow G.6b", "CollHist": "Not recorded", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Bronze double-pointed awl\r\nOther\r\n(2) Sherds of a Beaker (Clarke's S.2 (W) Group)\r\n(3) Slate implement\r\n(4) Flint knife\r\n(5) Flint flake\r\n(6) Nodule of iron pyrites\r\n(7) Slate implement\r\n(8) Flint strike-a-light.\r\n(9) Collared urn (Longworth's Primary Series)\r\n(10) Collared urn (Longworth's Primary Series)\r\n(11) Biconical shale bead\r\n(12) Flint scraper\r\n(13) Sherds of \"Windmill Hill\" pottery\r\n(14) Broken pig and ox bones\r\n(15) Frog and toad bones\r\n(16) Pestle-shaped slate pendant", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 18.8.81", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE", "BiblioSources": "(a) Grinsell (1957) 196\r\n(b) Wilts. Arch. Mag. 58 (1963) 467\r\n(c) Simpson & Smith (1964) 57-61 Fig 7 & plate IX\r\n(d) Simpson & Smith (1966) 122-155\r\n(e) Clarke II (1970) 445, 460, 503 N\u00b0 1131", "Circumstances": "Barrow totally excavated in July and August 1962 by D.D.A. Simpson and I.F. Smith. A circular bank of flints and sarsens, 20ft in diameter, covered two child inhumation and enclosed a large oblong grave pit, the sides of which had been lined with large sarsen boulders. It contained the flexed inhumation of an adult male whose body had apparently been covered with animal hides or fur. By the night shoulder sherds of a Beaker (2) were found, also a bronze awl (1), a slate implement (3), a flint knife (4) and a flint plate (5). A large nodule of iron pyrites (6) lay beneath the thoracic vertebrae, and a second slate implement (7) and a flint strike-a-light (8) were found beneath one of the displaced sarsens which had lined the grave. A few inches above the bottom of the grave and covered by a flat sarsen, burnt bones (representing the cremation of an adult and a child) were found in circumstances which suggested they had been deposited in a container, perhaps a skin bag. In the filling of the grave a small number of broken pig and ox bones (14) were found, also sherds of Windmill Hill pottery (13) a flint scraper (12) and a large quantity of frog and toad bones (15). To the north and NW of the central grave three further inhumations and four cremations were found. One inhumation, that of a child, was accompanied by a biconical shale bead (11). Two of the cremations were contained in Collared urns (9-10) set in small pits. The smaller of the urns (10) appeared to have been lowered into its pit by means of a wickerwork basket on sling. A pestle-shaped slate pendant (16) was found on the old ground surface. There was no previous history of investigation of the barrow, but superficial diggings had disturbed a number of pagan Saxon inhumations inthe upper part of the mound. There were also four intact inhumations, thought to be pagan Saxon : a male with an iron knife, spearhead, shield boss and finger ring, and another with a knife, shield boss and a number of silver gilt studs, perhaps ornaments from the shield.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 136020, "created": "2020-04-10T21:21:29.562305", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 83855, "user_id": 243, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-04-10T21:37:48.780559", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SU 1196 / 6835", "Site": "WILTSHIRE; WEST OVERTON; Barrow G. 6b", "CollHist": "Not recorded", "Contents": "Metal; (1) Bronze double-pointed awl; Other; (2) Sherds of a Beaker (Clarke's S.2(w) Group); (3) Slate implement; (4) Flint knife; (5) Flint flake; (6) Nodule of urn pyrites; (7) Slate implement; (8) Flint strike-a-light; (9) Collared urn (Longworth's Primary Series); (10) Collared urn (Longworth's Primary Series); (11) Biconical shale bead; (12) Flint scraper; (13) Sherds of \"Windmill Hill\" pottery; (14) Broken pig and ox bones; (15) Frog and toad bones; (16) Pestle-shaped slate pendant", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "S.M. 18.8.81", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE", "BiblioSources": "(a) Grinsell (1957) 196; (b) Wilks. Arch. Mag. 58 (1963) 467; (c) Simpson & Smith (1964) 57-61, Fig 7a Plate IX; (d) SImpson & Smith (1966) 122-155; (e) Clarke II (1970) 445, 460, 503, No1131", "Circumstances": "Barrow totally excavated in July and August 1962 by D.D.A. Simpson and I.F. Smith.  A circular bank of flints and sarsens, 20 ft in diameter, covered two child inhumations and enclosed a large oblong grave pit, the sides of which had been lined with large sarsen boulders.  It contained the flexed inhumation of an adult male whose body had apparently been covered with animal hides or fur.  By the right; continued; shoulder sherds of a Beaker (2) were found, also a bronze awl (1), a slate implement (3), a flint knife (4) and a flint flake (5).  A large nodule of urn pyrites (6) lay beneath the thoracic vertebrae, and a second slate implement (7) and a flint strike-a-light (8) were found beneath one of the displaced sarsens which had lined the grave.  A few inches above the bottom of the grave and covered by a flat sarsen, burnt bones (representing the cremation of an adult and a child) were found in circumstances which suggested they had been deposited in a container, perhaps a skin bag.  In the filling of the grave, a small number of broken pig and ox bones (14) were found, also sherds of Windmill Hill pottery (13) a flint scraper and a large quantity of frog and toad bones (15).  To the north and NW of the central grave three further inhumations and four cremations were found.  One inhumation, that of a child, was accompanied by a biconical shale bead (11). Two of the cremations were contained in Collard urns (9-10) set in small pits.  The smaller of the urns (10) appeared to have been lowered into its pit by means of a wickerwork basket or sling.  A pestle-shaped slate pendant (16) was found on the odd ground surface.  There was no previous history of investigation of the barrow, but superficial digging had disturbed a number of pagan Saxon inhumations in the upper part of the mound.  There were also four intact inhumations, thought to be pagan Saxon: a male with an iron knife, spearhead, shield boss and finger ring, and another with a knife, shield boss and a number of silver gilt studs, perhaps ornaments from the shield.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}]