[{"id": 136378, "created": "2020-04-29T11:00:13.858216", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84300, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-04-29T11:10:26.331961", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "Charlton SU 40;88", "Site": "OXFORDSHIRE;Nr WANTAGE;CHARLTON DOWN;Formerly Berkshire", "CollHist": "Newbury Borough Museum\r\n1939 . 29 item (1) according to (d)", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Knife-dagger, two rivet-holes with rivets in position\r\n(2) Awl : traces of a wooden handle\r\nOther\r\n(3) Sherds of pottery of cinerary urn type\r\n(4) Flint flakes", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 21.7.82.", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE", "BiblioSources": "(a) Grinsell (1936) 37\r\n(b) Smith (1938) 73-74\r\n(c) Piggott (1939) 109-116\r\n(d) Gerloff (1975) 169 N\u00b0 309", "Circumstances": "Ref (b) reported the 'needless mutilation of the barrow listed in (a) to which (c) adds that a race-horse trainer at Pewit Farm, Wantage was digging away the barrow in order to find material for filling holes in his gallops. Excavation by Piggott of what remained of the barrow was carried out in the summer of 1938. The central grave was an oval pit 5' x 3' and 3' deep. A rectangular area 2' x 3' had been defined by four wooden planks set on edge. Within this enclosure the chalk was full of mildew and grey matter suggesting decayed turf. An oval mass of cremated bones was found lying on the floor of the grave, amongst which on the N. side was an awl (2). To the E. lay a bronze dagger (1) between two sheets of bark and on both sides of the blade retaining traces of a woven cloth wrapping. Within the body of the mound were fragments of charcoal, sherds of pottery (3) and occasional flint flakes (4) suggesting that the mound was composed of scraped up occupational material. Ref (d) says dagger is unpublished!", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 140894, "created": "2020-06-07T19:06:34.214580", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84300, "user_id": 2005, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-07T19:06:44.509735", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "Charlton SU 40 / 88", "Site": "OXFORDSHIRE / Nr. WANTAGE / CHARLTON DOWN", "CollHist": "Newbury Borough Museum.\r\n1939.29 item (1) according to (d)", "Contents": "\r\nMetal\r\n-------\r\n(1) Knife dagger, two rivet-holes with rivets in position\r\n(2) Awl; traces of a wooden handle\r\nOther\r\n-------\r\n(3) Sherds of pottery of cinerary urn type\r\n(4) Flint flakes\r\n\r\n", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "/S.H.  21.7.82", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE", "BiblioSources": "(a) Grinsell (1936) 37\r\n(b) Smith (1938) 73-74\r\n(c) Piggott (1939) 109-116\r\n(d) Gerloff (1975) 168 No.309", "Circumstances": "  Ref (b) reported the \"needless mutilation of the barrow listed in (a) to which (c) adds that a race-horse trainer at Pewit Farm, Wantage was digging away the barrow in order to find material for filling holes in his gallops. Excavation by Piggott of what remained of the barrow was carried out in one day in the summer of 1938. The central grave was an oval pit 5' x 3' and 3' deep. A rectangular area\r\n2' x 3' had been defined by four wooden planks set on edge. Within this enclosure the chalk was full of mildew and grey matter suggesting decayed turf.\r\nAn oval ?mass of cremated bones was found lying on the floor of the grave, amongst which on the N. side was an awl (2). To the E. lay a bronze dagger (1) \r\nbetween two sheets of bark and on both sides of the blade retaining traces of \r\nwoven cloth wrapping. Within the body of the mound were fragments of charcoal,\r\nsherds of pottery (3) and occasional flint flakes (4) suggesting that the mound was composed of scraped up occupational material.\r\nRef (d) says dagger is unpublished !", "FindAltSiteRel": "Formerly Berkshire"}}]