[{"id": 138968, "created": "2020-05-14T14:40:39.632561", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84414, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-05-14T15:14:30.846693", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SP 8705;6275", "Site": "NORTHAMPTONSHIRE;EARLS BARTON;Barrow", "CollHist": "Northampton Museum", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Ogival dagger (Camerton/Snowshill group). Heel damaged : no traces of rivet holes\r\nOther\r\n(2) Tiny pieces of burnt bone not certainly human\r\n(3) About 100 sherds of pottery, mostly Beaker with some Neolithic and Food Vessel sherds\r\n(4) 29 worked flints", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "", "ContextType": "? 2a GRAVE (No burial for certain ?)", "BiblioSources": "(a) Bulletin Northants Federation of Archaeological Societies 4 (1970) 47\r\n(b) Selkirk & Jackson (1972) 238-241\r\n(c) Gerloff (1975) 104 N\u00b0 173\r\n(d) R.C.H.M. Northants II (1979) 39 N\u00b0 2", "Circumstances": "The barrow, 1 1/4 miles SE of the village of Earls Barton, was excavated by Mrs Denis Jackson between January and March 1969 as the site was under threat from gravel extraction. A large, subrectangular area of burning, about 20 to 30 feet square, was found on the old ground surface. The dagger (1) was found 9\" above the burnt area. Traces of burnt bone (2) were found at the same level but the amount was so small that it was not even possible to determine whether the bone was human of not. \r\nThe whole barrow had been so badly disturbed by burrowing animals that it was impossible to determine whether the dagger (1) was a primary or secondary deposition. The difficulty about the latter interpretation is that the upper layers of the mound had a uniform composition revealing no traces of a secondary pit. The excavator's alternative hypothesis was that the dagger had been laid on a turf plinth covering the funerary pyre. The only part of the barrow where traces of turf survived was precisely the area where the dagger was found. \r\nAbout 100 sherds of pottery were found within the body of the mound and below as (4) the majority of them Beaker sherds with some Neolithic and Food Vessel sherds. (3), and 29 worked flints (4) mostly within the mound but some between 3\" and 7\" below the pre-barrow surface. Two radiocarbon dates were obtained : 1219 +/- 51 bc (BM 680) and 1264 +/- 64 bc (BM 681), the former from charcoal fragments in the burnt area and the latter from from a large piece of charcoal marked \"plank\" in (b) 25 ft north of the burnt area.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 141617, "created": "2020-06-26T15:40:20.406614", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84414, "user_id": 2149, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-26T16:14:21.771607", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SP 8705, 6275", "Site": "Northamptonshire, Earls Barton, Barrow", "CollHist": "Collection: Northampton Museum", "Contents": "Metal:\r\n(1) Ogival dagger (Camerton/Sumerhill group), heel damaged: no traces of rivet holes\r\n\r\nOther:\r\n(2) Tiny pieces of burnt bone not certainly human \r\n(3) About 100 shards of pottery, mostly Beaker but some Neolithic and Food Vessel shards\r\n(4) 29 worked flints", "comments": "Under Contents - the two locations or names beginning with C and S denoting a group are not clear. ", "ArchiveEtc": "-", "ContextType": "2a Grave (no burial for certain?)", "BiblioSources": "(a) Bulletin Northants Federation of Archaeological Societies 4(1970) 47\r\n(b) Selkirk & Jackson (1972) 238-241\r\n(c) Gerloff (1975) 104 No 173\r\n(d) R.C.H.M. Northants II (1979) 39 No 2", "Circumstances": "The barrows, 1 1/4 miles SE of the village of Earls Barton, was excavated by Mr. Denis Jackson between January and March 1969 as the site was under threat from gravel extraction. A large, subrectangular area of burning, about 20 to 30 feet square, was found on the old ground surface. The dagger (1) was found 9\" above the burnt area. Traces of burnt bone (2)  were found at the same level but the amount was so small that it was not even possible to determine whether the bone was human or not. The whole barrow had been so badly disturbed by burrowing animals that it was impossible to determine whether the dagger (1) was a primary or secondary deposition. The difficulty about the latter interpretation is that the upper layers of the mound had a uniform composition revealing no traces of a secondary pit. The excavator's alternative hypothesis was that the dagger had been laid on a turf plinth covering the funerary pyre. The only part of the barrow where traces of turf survived was precisely the area where the dagger was found. About 100 shards of pottery were found within the body of the mound (^ and other no. 4), the majority of them Beaker shards with some Neolithic and food vessel shards (3), and 29 worked flints (4), mostly within the mound but some between 3\" and 7\" below the pre-barrow surface. Two radiocarbon dates were obtained: 1219 \u00b1 51 bc (BM 680) and 1264 \u00b164 bc (BM 681), the former from charcoal fragments in the burnt area and the latter from a large piece of charcoal marked \"plant\" in the plan m(b) 25ft north of the burnt area.", "FindAltSiteRel": "-"}}]