[{"id": 135732, "created": "2020-03-27T08:26:57.498588", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 83938, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-03-27T09:14:01.367566", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SU 1779;4009", "Site": "WILTSHIRE;AMESBURY;Barrow G.85", "CollHist": "Salisbury Museum 97/1930", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Dagger of \"Bush Barrow\" type with six peg rivets in position ; traces of wooden sheath on blade and of a wooden hilt on the hilt-plate\r\n(2) Knife dagger, 3 rivet-holes with two rivets in position : wide lateral groove on blade\r\n(3) Flat dagger with three rivets in position ; three loose rivets which probably fastened the hilt. Traces of wooden hilt and sheath and a one-piece bone pommel.\r\n(4) Small bronze object with two small rivets\r\n(5) Small penannular ring of sheet bronze\r\n(6) Bronze belt hook\r\n(7) Iron spearhead\r\n(8) Half of a pair of small iron shears\r\n(9) Small Roman coin\r\nOther\r\n(10) Red deer another spatula (broken into 3 parts)\r\n(11) Handle of red deer antler\r\n(12) Tip fragment of a spatula of red deer antler\r\n(13) Red deer antler tines\r\n(14) Grooved whetstone\r\n(15) Grooved whetstone\r\n(16) Flat whetstone\r\n(17) Antler pendant\r\n(18) Bone pendant\r\n(19) Bone awl\r\n(20) Flint knife\r\n(21) Flint end scraper (? strike-a-light).\r\n(22) Plant remains (mostly sphagnum moss & yew leaves)\r\n(23) Hone\r\n(24) Hone\r\n(25) Sherd of a finger-tip decorated biconical urn\r\n(26) Sherds of mediaeval 'scratch-marked' pottery\r\n(27) Sherds of RB pottery\r\n(28) One box-flue tile\r\n(29) Bones of pig, sheep, ox, dog & water-vole\r\n(30) Perforated bone point\r\n(31) Fragments of two perforated bone points", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 9.8.81.", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE/O", "BiblioSources": "(a) Newall (1931) 432-458\r\n(b) Piggott (1938) App VII N\u00b0 36\r\n(c) ApSimon (1954) App. A N\u00b0 5\r\n(d) Grinsell (1957) 207\r\n(e) Britton (1961) Table 1 Nos 3, 41\r\n(f) Moore & Rowlands (1972) 43-46\r\n(g) Gerloff (1975) 54 N\u00b0 66 ; 76 N\u00b0 127 ; 170-1 N\u00b0 323", "Circumstances": "In february 1930 this Bell Barrow was removed by contractors under the surveillance of Mr R.S. Newall, prior to the extension of the Boscombe Down Aerodrome runway. The conditions of the barrow's removal did not allow the sequence of the burials to be clearly differentiatied. The central grave pit had been robbed in antiquity ; only one cremated bone was found and the presumed grave-goods widely scattered in the back filling of the robber trench. Finds of mediaeval \"scratch-marked\" pottery in the grave and backfill suggest that the grave had been robbed in the 12th or 13th centuries. Reference (a) assumed that most of the objects found in the back filling - items (1-2) (10-19) and possibly (4) although this object was considered more likely to be connected with the belt-hook (6) - formed a disturbed \"Wessex Grave Group\" with a cremation. This suggestion was followed by (b) - his Wessex Grave N\u00b0 36. Reference (f) questions this assumption and suggests that there is evidence for at least two burials here, not necessarily cremations. one with the antler objects (10-13), the grooved whetstones (14-15) and flint knife (20) - these objects being in the Beaker tradition - whereas the dagger (1) and grooved knife-dagger (2) are typical \"Wessex Culture\" objects. It is further suggested that the sherd of a biconical urn (25) might have been associated with a secondary cremation. An undisturbed crouched inhumation was found in a wood-lined pit cut 4ft into the natural chalk. A flat dagger (3) was found behind the skull and between the dagger and skull was a flint scraper (21). A mass of organic material containing plant remains (22) was found above and below the dagger and scraper suggesting that these objects had been wrapped in moss and yew leaves. An iron spearhead (7), half of a pair of small iron shears (8) a penannular ring of sheet bronze (5) and a bronze belt-hook (6) were found on the berm of the barrow. There was no evidence of any burial ; if there had been it had been ploughed out. There were some sherds of RB pottery (27) on the berm and a box flue-tile (28) ; also one small Roman coin (9). Bones of pig, sheep, ox, dog and water-vole (29) were found in the mound ; also a perforated bone point (30). Fragments of two perforated bone points (31) were found in the ditch.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 136262, "created": "2020-04-24T13:18:48.874348", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 83938, "user_id": 243, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-04-24T13:36:38.390190", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SU 1779; 4009", "Site": "WILTSHIRE; AMESBURY; Barrow G.85", "CollHist": "Salisbury Museum 97/1930", "Contents": "Metal; (1) Dagger of \"Bush Barrow\" type with six peg rivets in position, traces of wooden sheath on blade and of a wooden hilt on the hilt-plate; (2) Knife dagger, 3 rivet-holes with two rivets in position: wide lateral groove on blade; (3) Flat dagger with three rivets in position, three loose rivets which probably fastened the hilt.  Traces of wooden hilt and sheath and a one-piece bone pommel.; (4) Small bronze object with two small rivets; (5) Small penannular ring of sheet bronze; (6) Bronze belt hook; (7) Iron spearhead; (8) Half of a pair of small iron shears; (9) Small Roman coin; Other; (10) Red deer antler spatula (broken into 3 parts); (11) Handle of red deer antler; (12) Tip fragment of a spatula of red deer antler; (13) Red deer antler tines; continued.; (14) Grooved whetstone; (15) Grooved whetstone; (16) Flat whetstone; (17) Antler pendant; (18) Bone pendant; (19) Bone awl; (20) Flint knife; (21) Flint end scraper (? strike-a-light).; (22) Plant remains (mostly sphagnum moss & yew leaves); (23) Hone; (24) Hone; (25) Sherds of a finger-tip decorated biconical urn; (26) Sherds of mediaeval 'scratch-marked' pottery; (27) Sherds of RB pottery; (28) One box-flue tile; (29) Bones of pig, sheep, ox, dog & water-vole; (30) Perforated bone point; (31) Fragments of two perforated bone points", "comments": "Converted some semi-colons in Circumstances, Bibliography, and Contents to commas to preserve transcription formatting.  Question mark in Contents, Item (21) is original to card and not a transcriber's note.", "ArchiveEtc": "[Rec.] S.H. 9.8.81.", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE/O", "BiblioSources": "(a) Newall (1931) 432-458; (b) Piggott (1938) App VII No36; (c) ApSimon (1954) App. A No5; (d) Grinsell (1957) 207; (e) Britton (1961) Table 1 Nos 3, 41; (f) Moore & Rowlands (1972) 43-46; (g) Gerloff (1975) 54 No66, 76 No137, 170-1 No323", "Circumstances": "In February 1930 this Bell Barrow was removed by contractors under the surveillance of Mr. R.S. Newall, prior to the extension of the Boscombe Down Aerodrome runway.  The conditions of the barrow's removal did not allow the sequence of the burials to be clearly differentiated.  The central grave pit had been robbed in antiquity, only one cremated bone was found and the presumed grave-goods widely scattered in the back filling of the robber trench.  Finds of mediaeval \"scratch-marked\" pottery in the grave and backfill suggest that the grave had been robbed in the 12th or 13th centuries.  Reference (a) assumed that most of the objects found in the; continued; back filling - items (1-2) (10-19) and possibly (4) although this object was considered more likely to be connected with the belt-hook (6) - formed a disturbed \"Wessex Grave Group\" with a cremation.  This suggestion was followed by (b) - his Wessex Grave No36.  Reference (f) questions this assumption and suggests that there is evidence for at least two burials here, not necessarily cremations.  one with the antler objects (10-13), the grooved whetstones (14-15) and flint knife (20) - these objects being in the Beaker tradition - whereas the dagger (1) and grooved Knife-dagger (2) are typical \"Wessex Culture\" objects.  It is further suggested that the sherd of a biconical urn (25) might have been associated with a secondary cremation.  An undisturbed crouched inhumation was found in a wood-lined pit cut 4ft into the natural chalk.  A flat dagger (3) was found behind the skull and between the dagger and skull was a flint scraper (21).  A mass of organic material containing plant remains (22) was found above and below the dagger and scraper suggesting that these objects had been wrapped in moss and yew leaves.  An iron spearhead (7), half of a pair of small iron shears (8) a penannular ring of sheet bronze (5) and a bronze belt-hook (6) were found on the berm of the barrow.  There was no evidence of any burial, if there had been it had been ploughed out.  There were some sherds of RB pottery (27) on the berm and a box flue-tile (28), also one small Roman coin (9).  Bones of pig, sheep, ox, dog and water-vole (29) were found in the mound, also a perforated bone point (30).  Fragments of two perforated bone points (31) were found in the ditch.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}]