[{"id": 135733, "created": "2020-03-27T09:16:26.589397", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 83939, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-03-27T10:15:27.290982", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SU 1840;4188", "Site": "WILTSHIRE;AMESBURY;EARL'S DOWN FARM;Barrow 71", "CollHist": "Salisbury Museum\r\nItems (1-2) 53/1931\r\nWhereabouts of 1961 finds not recorded\r\nHistory\r\nItems (1-2) presented to the Museum in 1931 by the Board of Agriculture per Mr Sandell of Ratfyn.", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Razor (Piggott's Class 1)\r\nOther\r\n(2) Wessex Biconical urn with horseshoe handles\r\n(3) Perforated fossil bead (Porosphera globularis)\r\n(4) Wooden object of oak charcoal ?toy\r\n(5) Large quantity of flakes, cores and spalls including several artefacts\r\n(6) Small ridged Food Vessel\r\n(7) Large flint flake\r\n(8) Enlarged ridged Food Vessel\r\n(9) Sixty sherds of a vessel as (8)\r\n(10) Three fossil beads as (3)\r\n(11) Collar and part of neck of a collard urn\r\n(12) Part of a miniature bucket shaped urn\r\n(13) Sherds of a Bucket urn\r\n(14) Globular urn\r\n(15) Sherds of Collared or Biconical urns\r\n(16) Sherds of Bucket and Barrel urns\r\n(17) Fossil bead as (3)\r\n(18) Great quantities of struck flakes, cores and some finished artefacts\r\n(19) Fragments of red deer antlers\r\n(20) Fossil bead as (3)\r\n(21) Animal bones\r\n(22) RB pottery, oyster shells & fragments of tiles\r\n", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 8.7.81.", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE", "BiblioSources": "(a) Piggott (1938) 187\r\n(b) Piggott (1946) 137 N\u00b0 32\r\n(c) Smith & Butler (1956) 49-50\r\n(d) Ashbee (1960) 125 Fig. 43\r\n(e) Wilt Arch. Mag 58 (1962) 240\r\n(f) Smith (1961) 104\r\n(g) Christie (1967) 336-366\r\n(h) Moore & Rowlands (1972) 50", "Circumstances": "A Wessex Biconical Urn (2), exposed in 1931 near the top of the barrow by a rabbit scrape and excavated by R.S. Newall, was found to be inverted over a cremation with a bronze razor (1). The barrow was totally excavated by Mrs P.M. Christie in 1961, and found to be the final phase of a monument with at least two earlier phases. A primary circular ditched enclosure was succeeded by an unaccompanied inhumation in a deep oval pit with a timber structure, attributed to the Beaker period and covered by a low bell barrow under which were concentric stake circles (C14 date for grave 2010+/- 110bc NPL-77). The mound was subsequently truncated in the Food Vessel phase and four inhumations and several cremations were then inserted. A perforated fossil bead (3) was found under Burial 1, an adult inhumation. Burial 2, a child inhumation, was found with a wooden object of oak charcoal (4). A concentration of flints (5) was found over the grave. Another child inhumation, Burial 3, was accompanied by a small ridged Food Vessel (6), and a third child inhumation, Burial 4, was found with a large flint flake (7). The Cremation of two individuals, an adolescent and a child was found under an inverted Enlarged Ridged Food Vessel (8). A central hearth belonging to this phase has a C14 date of 1640 +/- 90bc NPL-75. A layer of soil and chalk averaging 9\" in thickness covered the surface of the truncated mound over the graves & hearth forming a level platform. Sixty sherds of an Enlarged Ridged Food Vessel (9) were found in this layer ; also some cremated human bones and three fossil beads (10) A final mound of chalk and turf was built and further burials, both cremations and inhumations were inserted into it and the surrounding ditch. The remains of a cremation was found with the collar and part of the neck of a collared urn (11) in the chalk capping of the final mound, as was the Wessex biconical urn (2) and razor (1) with the cremation already referred to. Near the remains of the collared urn (11), but not necessarily associated with it, was found part of a miniature urn (12). One of the cremations in the ditch was probably originally contained in a Bucket urn (13) the crushed pieces of which were associated with the bones. The cremation of an adult female and an infant were contained in a Globular urn.(14) A quantity of burnt bones were found, as well as sherds of Collared or Biconical urns (15) and sherds of Bucket and Barrel Urns (16) suggesting at least four additional inurned cremations in the ditch. Another fossil bead (17), fragments of red deer antlers (19), and flint working \"floors\" were found in the ditch with great quantities of flint flakes and cores (18). A sixth bead (20) was found in the top of the upper turf stack, and animal bones (21) in the ditch. A quantity of RB pottery, oyster shells and a few flanged tile fragments (22) were found in the topsoil and upper silting of the ditch. An unaccompanied inhumation found near the top of the mound is believed to be post-Roman", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 136311, "created": "2020-04-27T12:59:18.032547", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 83939, "user_id": 2000, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-04-27T13:00:51.957619", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SU 1840", "Site": "", "CollHist": "", "Contents": "", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "", "ContextType": "", "BiblioSources": "", "Circumstances": "", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}]