[{"id": 135736, "created": "2020-03-27T17:16:20.121424", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 83942, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-03-27T18:05:54.270047", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SU 1143;4276", "Site": "WILTSHIRE;AMESBUTY;Barrow G.51", "CollHist": "Devizes Museum\r\nDM 483 (Item 2)\r\nWhereabouts of 1960 finds not recorded\r\nfor history of 1805 finds see overleaf\r\nHistory\r\nThe Beaker (2) purchased from Sir Henry Hoare in 1883 by the Trustees of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society.\r\nOn loan since 1878 from Sir Henry Hoare to the Society's Museum at Devizes.\r\nUntil 1878 in the Stourhead Collection since 1818 when Sir Richard Colt Hoare purchased Mr Cunnington's Collection at Heytesbury.\r\nUntil 1818 at Heytesbury since Cunnington found it in 1805.", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Bronze awl\r\nOther\r\n(2) Beaker (Clarke's S2 (W) group\r\n(3) Beaker (Indeterminate) lost [unless represented by (6) or (7)]\r\n(4) Beaker (Clarke's S 2 (E) group)\r\n(5) Beaker (Clarke's W/MR Group)\r\n(6) Sherds of a Beaker (Clarke's ?W/MR group)\r\n(7) Small crumbs of Beaker pottery\r\n(8) Protective slip for item (1) made of antler\r\n(9) Pointed implement of roe deer antler\r\n(10) Protective slip for (9) of same material\r\n(11) Antler spatula\r\n(12) Antler horn core\r\n(13) Carbonised remains of a tapering wooden board\r\n(14) Carbonised remains of a wooden club-like implement\r\n(15) Carbonised remains of a wooden knife-like implement\r\n(16) Flint scraper\r\n(17) Two barbed and tanged arrowheads\r\n(18) Flint flakes and implements\r\n(19) Three lumps of sarsen and nine pieces of rock foreign to the district", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 24.8.81", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE/O", "BiblioSources": "(a) Cunnington MS V, 44 (Devizes Museum Library)\r\n(b) Hoare I (1812) 163 Plates XVI\r\n(c) Abercromby I (1912) Plate V, Fig 2.\r\n(d) Goddard (1913b) 169\r\n(e) Cunnington (1926) 271 Nos 9 and 10\r\n(f) Grinsell (1957) 151\r\n(g) Wilts Arch. Mag 58 (1961) 31\r\n(h) Annable & Simpson (1964) 41 N\u00b0 112\r\n(i) Clarke II (1970) 444, 459, 500-1, Nos 1034 - 1038F. Figs. 809, 162, 846\r\n(j) Ashbee (1978) 1-60", "Circumstances": "Barrow opened by Cunnington in 1805 and totally excavated by P. Ashbee in 1960. Reference (b) reported the discovery of three superimposed skeletons, the first about 2ft below surface, the second on a level with the natural soil. A Beaker (3) lay by the head and with it something which appeared like decayed leather. Six feet lower, in a grave pit, lay the third inhumation, with a Beaker (2). This skeleton had been re-interred after Cunnington had noted that a large piece of skull, 5\" in diameter, had been sawn off. The 1960 excavations proved that Cunnington's central shaft had only partially destroyed the infill of the central grave, and it was possible to recover the dimensions of a timber coffin or mortuary house, indicated by the impressions of boards and corner posts still visible in the hard packed chalk. The re-interred bones were also recovered and the sawn off piece of skull found to be a trepanned roundel of unusual size. In the throw-back of the 19th century disturbance, two barbed and tanged arrowheads (17) were found in the grave, also crumbs of Beaker pottery (7). [It is suggested by (j) that the lost Beaker (3) may be represented by these tiny sherds, or by the sherds of Beaker pottery (6) found in 1960 in the upper silting of the ditch, where they could have been thrown in 1805.] An undisturbed contracted inhumation was found about a foot below the modern ploughsoil (Burial A) covered by a tapering wooden board (carbonised) (13). This was accompanied by a Beaker (4) a bronze awl (1) with a protective antler slip (8) a flint scraper (16) an antler spatula (11) a pointed antler implement (9) with a protective antler slip (10) and an antler horn core (12). The carbonised remains of a wooden club-like object (14) and a knife-like implement (15) were also found with Burial A. (A radiocarbon date from the wooden board : 1788 +/- 90bc BM 287). Another undisturbed contracted inhumation, Burial B was found in the ditch silting with a Beaker (5). Flint flakes and implements (18) were found in mound and ditch, 3 lumps of sarsen and 9 pieces of rock foreign to the district (19). Sherds of a Beaker (6) in the upper silting of the ditch and Iron Age and RB pottery sherds in the modern ploughsoil.", "FindAltSiteRel": "RCH 36 \"Stonehenge Barrow\""}}, {"id": 136317, "created": "2020-04-27T14:03:59.225302", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 83942, "user_id": 243, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-04-27T14:20:54.195823", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SU 1143; 4276", "Site": "WILTSHIRE; AMESBURY; Barrow G.51", "CollHist": "Devizes Museum; DM 483 (item2); Whereabouts of 1960 finds not recorded / History; for History of 1805 finds see overleaf.; History; The Beaker (2) purchased from Sir Henry Hoare in 1883 by the Trustees of the Wiltshire Archaeological society.  On loan since 1878 from Sir Henry Hoare to the Society's Museum at Devizes.  Until 1878 in the STourhead Collection since 1818 when Sir Richard Colt Hoare purchased Mr Cunnington's Collection at Heytesbury.  Until 1818 at Heytesbury since Cunnintgton found it in 1805.", "Contents": "Metal; (1) Bronze awl; Other; (2) Beaker (Clarke's S2(W) group; (3) Beaker (Indeterminate) lost [unless represented by (6) or (7)]; (4) Beaker (Clarke's S2(E) group); (5) Beaker (Clarke's W/MR Group); (6) Sherds of a Beaker (Clarke's ?W/MR group); (7) Small crumbs of Beaker pottery; (8) Protective slip for item (1) made of antler; (9) Pointed implement of roe deer antler; (10) Protective slip for (9) of same material; (11) Antler spatula; (12) Antler horn core; (13) Carbonised remains of a tapering wooden board; (14) Carbonised remains of a wooden club-like implement; (15) Carbonised remains of a wooden knife-like implement; (16) Flint scraper; continued; (17) Two barbed and tanged arrowheads; (18) Flint flakes and implements; (19) Three lumps of sarsen and nine pieces of rock foreign to the district", "comments": "Question mark in Item 6 of Contents is original to card and not a transcriber's note", "ArchiveEtc": "[Rec.] S.H. 24.8.81", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE/O", "BiblioSources": "(a) Cunnington MS V, 44 (Devizes Museum Library); (b) Hoare I (1812) 163 Plate XVI; (c) Abercromby I (1912) Plate V, Fig 2.; (d) Goddard (1913b) 169; (e) Cunnington (1926) 271 Nos 9 and 10; (f) Grinsell (1957) 151; (g) Wilts Arch. Mag. 58 (1961) 31; (h) Annable & Simpson (1964) 41 No112; continued; (i) Clarke II (1970) 444, 459, 500-1, Nos 1034-1038F.  Figs. 809, 162, 846; (j) Ashbee (1978) 1-60", "Circumstances": "Barrow opened by Cunnington in 1805 and totally excavated by P. Ashbee in 1960.  Reference (b) reported the discovery of three superimposed skeletons, the first about 2 ft below surface, the second on a level with the natural soil.  A Beaker (3) lay by the head and with it something which appeared like decayed leather.  Six feet lower, in a grave pit, lay the third inhumation, with a Beaker (2).  This skeleton had been re-interred after Cunnington had noted that a large piece of skull, 5\" in diameter, had been sawn off.  The 1960 excavations proved that Cunnington's central shaft had only partially destroyed the infill of the central; continued; grave, and it was possible to recover the dimensions of a timber coffin or mortuary house, indicated by the impressions of boards and corner posts still visible in the hand packed chalk.  The re-interred bones were also recovered and the sawn off piece of skull found to be a trepanned roundel of unusual size.  In the throw-back of the 19th century disturbances, two barbed and tanged arrowheads (17) were found in the grave, also crumbs of Beaker pottery (7). [It is suggested by (j) that the lost Beaker (3) may be represented by three tiny sherds, or by the sherds of Beaker pottery (6) found in 1960 in the upper silting of the ditch, where they could have been thrown in 1805.]  An undisturbed contracted inhumation was found about a foot below the medium ploughsoil (Burial A) covered by a tapering wooden board (carbonised) (13).  This was accompanied by a Beaker (4) a bronze awl (1) with a protective antler slip (8) a flint scraper (16) an antler spatula (11) a pointed antler implement (9) with a protective antler slip (10) and an antler horn core (12).  The carbonised remains of a wooden club-like object (14) and a knife-like implement (15) were also found with Burial A.  (A radiocarbon date from the wooden board: 1788 +/- 90 bc BM 287).  Another undisturbed contracted inhumation, Burial B was found in the ditch silting with a Beaker (5).  Flint flakes and implements (18) were found in mound and ditch, 3 lumps of sarsen and 9 pieces of rock foreign to the district (19).  Sherds of a Beaker (6) in the upper silting of the ditch and Iron Age and RB pottery sherds in the modern ploughsoil.", "FindAltSiteRel": "RCH 3G \"Stonehenge Barrow\""}}, {"id": 136318, "created": "2020-04-27T14:28:10.101542", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 83942, "user_id": 2000, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-04-27T14:28:33.636104", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SU 1143 4276", "Site": "WILTSHIRE AMESBURY Barrow G.51", "CollHist": "Devizes Museum DM 483 (item 2); whereabouts of 1960 funds not recorded/ For History of 1805 finds see overleaf; The Beaker (2) purchased from Sir Henry Hoare in 1883 by the Trustee of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society.; On loan since 1878 from Sir Henry Hoare to the Society's Museum at Devizes.; Until 1878 in the Stourhead Collection since 1818 when Sir Richard Colt Hoare purchased Mr Cunnington's Collection at Heytesbury.; Until 1818 at Heytesbury since Cunnington found it in 1805.", "Contents": "Metal; (1) Bronze awl; Other; (2) Beaker (Clarke's S2 (W) group; (3) Beaker (Indeterminate) lost [unless represented by (6) or (7)]; (4) Beaker (Clarke's S2 (E) group); (5) Beaker (Clarke's W/MR group); (6) Sherds of a Beaker (Clarke's ? W/MR group); (7) Small crumbs of Beaker pottery (8) Protective slip for item (1) made of antler; (9) Pointed implement of roe deer antler; (10) Protective slip for (9)of same material; (11) Antler spatula; (12) Antler horn core; (13) Carbonised remains of a tapering wooden board; (14) Carbonise remains of a wooden club-like implement; (15) Carbonised remains of a wooden knife-like implement; (16) Flint scraper continued; (17) Two barbed and tanged arrowheads; (18) Flint flakes and implements; (19) Three lumps of Larsen and nine pieces of rock foreign to the district", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "S. H. 24.8.81", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE/0", "BiblioSources": "(a) Cunnington MS V,44 (Devizes Museum Library); (b) Hoare I (1812) 163 Plate XVI; (c) Abercromby I (1912) Plate V, Fig.2.; (d) Goddard (1913b) 169; (e) Cunnington (1926) 271 Nos 9 and 10; (f) Grinsell (1957) 151; (g) Wilts Arch. Mag. 58 (1961) 31; (h) Annable & Simpson (1964) 41 No 112 continued; (i) Clarke II (1970) 444, 459, 500-5, nos 1034-1038F. Figs 809, 162, 846; (j) Ashbee (1978) 1-60", "Circumstances": "Barrow opened by Cunnington in 1805 and totally excavated by P. Ashbee in 1960. Reference (b) reported the discovery of three superimposed skeletons, the first about 2 ft below surface, the second on a level with the natural soil. A Beaker (3) lay by the head and with it something which appeared like decayed leather. Six feet lower, in a grave pit, lay the third inhumation, with a Beaker (2). This skeleton had been re-interred after Cunnington had noted that a large piece of skull, 5\" in diameter, had been sawn off. The 1960 excavations proved that Cunnington's central shaft had only partially destroyed the infill of the central continued; grave, and it was possible to recover the dimensions of a timber coffin or mortuary house, indicated by the impressions of boards and corner pests still visible in the hard packed chalk. The re-interred bones were also recovered and the sown off piece of skull found to be a trepanned roundel of unusual size. In the throw-back of the 19th century disturbance, two barbed and tanged arrowheads (17) were found in the grave, also crumbs of Beaker pottery (7). [It is suggested by (j) that the lost Beaker (3) may be represented by three tiny sherds, or by the sherds of Beaker pottery (6) found in 1960 in the upper silting of the ditch, where they could have been thrown in 1805.] An undisturbed contracted inhumation was found about a foot below the modern ploughsoil (Burial A) covered by a tapering wooden board (carbonised) (13). This was accompanied by a Beaker (4) a bronze awl (1) with a protective antler slip (8) a flint scraper (16) an antler spatula (11) a pointed antler implement (9) with a protective antler slip (10) and an antler horn core (12). The carbonise remains of a wooden club-like objects (14) and a knife-like implement (15) were also found with Burial A. (A radiocarbon date from the wooden board: 1788+-90bc BM 287). Another undisturbed contracted inhumation, Burial B was found in the ditch silting with a Beaker (5). Flint flakes and implements (18) were found in mound and ditch, 3 lumps of sarsen and 9 pieces of rock foreign to the district (19). Sherds of a Beaker (6) in the supper silting of the ditch and Iron Age and RB pottery sherds in the modern ploughsoil. ", "FindAltSiteRel": "RCH 36 \"Stonehenge Barrow\""}}, {"id": 136319, "created": "2020-04-27T14:27:58.120328", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 83942, "user_id": 2001, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-04-27T14:29:10.567388", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SU 1143; 4276", "Site": "Wiltshire; Amesbury; Barrow G.51", "CollHist": "Devizes Museum; DM 483 (Item 2); Observations of 1960s finds not recorded. / For the ?history of 1805 finds see overleaf; The Beaker (2) purchased from Sir Henry ?Hoare in 1883 by the Trustees of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society. On loan since 1878 from Sir Henry ?Hoare to the Society's Museum at Devizes. Until 1878 in the Stourhead Collection since 1818 when Sir Richard ?Colt Hoare purchased Mr ?Cunnington's Collection at Heytesbury. Until 1818 at Heytesbury since ?Cunnington found it in 1805.", "Contents": "Metal; (1) Bronze owl; Other; (2) Beaker (Clarke's S2(w) group; (3) Beaker (indeterminate) lost [unless represented by (6) or (7)]; (4) Beaker (Clarke's S2(E) group); (5) Beaker (Clarke's W/MR group); (6) Sherds of a Beaker (Clarke's ?W/MR group); (7) Small crumbs of Beaker pottery; (8) Protective slip for item (1) made of antler; (9) pointed implement of ?roe deer antler; (10) protective slip for (9) of same material; (11) antler spatula; (12) antler horn ?case; (13) Carbonised remains of a tapering wooden board; (14) Carbonised remains of a wooden club-like implement; (15) carbonised remains of a wooden knife-like implement; (16) flint scraper; continued; (17) Two barbed and tanged arrowheads; (18) Flint flakes and implements; (19) Three lumps of sarsen and nine pieces of rock foreign to the district", "comments": "Some fainter areas - might have been erased or written in pencil.", "ArchiveEtc": "S.H.24.8.81", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE/o", "BiblioSources": "(a) ?Cunnington MS V.44 (?Devizes Museum Library); (b) ?Hoare I (1812) 163 Plate XVI; (c) Abercromby I (1912) Plate V, Fig 2.; (d) Goddard (1913b) 169; (e) ?Cunnington (1926) 271 Nos 9 and 10; (f) ?Grinnell (1957) 151; (g) Wilts Arch. Mag. 58 (1961) 31; (h) Annable & Simpson (1964) 41 no 112; continued; (i) Clarke II (1970) 444, 459, 500-1, nos 1034-1038F. Figs. 809, 162, 847; (j) Asbee (1978) 1-60", "Circumstances": "Barrow opened by ?Cunnington in 1805 and totally excavated by P. Ashbee in 1960. Reference (b) reported the discovery of three superimposed skeletons, the first about 2ft below surface, the second on a level with the natural soil. A Beaker lay by the head and with it something which appeared like decayed leather. Six feet lower, in a grave pit, lay the third inhumation with a Beaker(2). The skeleton had been reinterred after ?Cunnington had noted that a large piece of skull, 5\" in diameter, had been sawn off. The 1960 ?excavations ?proved that ?Cunnington's central shaft had only partially destroyed the infill of the central continued / grave, and it was possible to recover the dimensions of a timber coffin or mortuary home, indicated by the impressions of boards and ?corner posts still visible in the hand packed chalk. The re-interred bones were also ?recovered and the sawn off piece of skull found to be a trepanned roundel of unusual size. In the ?-back of the 19th century disturbance, two barbed and tanged arrowheads (17) were found in the grave, also crumbs of Beaker pottery ?^(7). [It is suggested by (j) that the ?lost Beaker (3) may be represented by these tiny shards, or by the shards of Beaker pottery (b) found in 1960 in the upper silting of the ditch, where they could have been thrown in 1805.] An undisturbed ?contracted inhumation was found about a foot below the modern ploughsoil (Burial A) covered by a tapering wooden board (carbonised) (13). This was accompanied by a Beaker (4) a bronze owl (1) with a protective antler slip (8) a flint scraper (16) an antler spatula (11) a ?printed antler implement (9) with a protective antler slip (10) and an antler horn ?cane (12). The carbonised remains of a wooden club-like object (14) and a knife-like implement (15) were also found with Burial A. (A radiocarbon date from the wooden: 1788 ?a 90bc BM 287). Another undisturbed ?contracted inhumation, Burial B, was found in the ditch silting with a beaker (5). Flint flakes and implements ^(??) were found in mound and ditch, 3 lumps of sarsen and 9 pieces of rock foreign to the district (19). Sherds of a Beaker (6) in the upper silting of the ditch and Iron Age and RB pottery sherds in the modern ploughsoil.", "FindAltSiteRel": "RCH 36 'Stonehenge ?Burial'/ /"}}]