[{"id": 140660, "created": "2020-06-01T08:32:56.980273", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84644, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-01T08:50:55.392380", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "c SE 90;62", "Site": "HUMBERSIDE;TOWTHORPE;Mortimer Barrow 139", "CollHist": "Hull Museum\r\nItem (1)\r\nItem (2)\r\nItem (4)\r\nItem (5)\r\nItem (6)\r\nItem (7)\r\nItem (8)\r\nItem (9)\r\nItem (10)\r\nItem (11)\r\nItem (12)\r\nItem (13)\r\nItem (15)\r\nItem (16)\r\nWhereabouts of remainder unknown\r\nHistory\r\nPurchased from the Mortimer Collection at Driffield in 1914 and presented to Hull.\r\nIn the Mortimer collection until 1914 from 1870", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Dagger with damaged hilt plate ; originally with six rivets\r\n(2-3) Remains of organic sheath and ?sheet bronze found as green powder\r\nOther\r\n(4) Perforated stone hammer\r\n(5) Traces of wooden handle of (4)\r\n(6) Plano-convex flint knife\r\n(7) Flint knife trimmed along one edge\r\n(8) Flint flake with serrated edge\r\n(9) Flint flake with finely serrated edge\r\n(10) Round scraper\r\n(11) Spoon-shaped scraper\r\n(12) Pear-shaped scraper\r\n(13) Carbonised material found under skeleton\r\n(14) Flint splinter\r\n(15) Flint knife\r\n(16) Tip of leaf-shaped arrowhead\r\n(17) Worked flints and flint flakes\r\n(18) Two sherds of an urn\r\n(19) Small sherd of \"British pottery\"", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 9.3.81", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE", "BiblioSources": "(a) Mortimer (1905) 3-6 Plate 1 Figs 8-10\r\n(b) Sheppard (1929) 1-3 Nos 7-10 ii-xii\r\n(c) ApSimon (1954) App A. N\u00b0 14\r\n(d) Gerloff (1975) 71 N\u00b0 111", "Circumstances": "Opened by Mortimer between 7-30 Nov. 1870. It was situated at the W. end of the Towthorpe plantation and is one of a group of 21 barrows set in a West-East direction along a green lane from Aldro nearly to Sledmore. Three cup-shaped pits A. B. & C, cut into chalk, were filled with blue clay and local soil. Burnt wood was found in all the pits and a sherd of \"British pottery\" (19) in B. In a large oblong pit below the centre of the barrow an extended male inhumation was found in a boat shaped mass of clay, lying on a bed of carbonised material (13). A dagger-blade (1) and the remains of a sheath of organic material (2) and sheet bronze (3) found as green powder, lay by the forearm, and a perforated stone hammer (4) with traces of its wooden handle (5) lay by the head. Close to the facial bones was a plano-convex flint knife (6). A few calcinated bones of a child were found in the midst of decayed wood 3ft from the base of the barrow on the ESE side, with a splinter of dark flint (14). In the material over the central grave a flint flake with a serrated edge (8) was found, and another with a finely serrated edge (9). A circular scraper (10) a spoon-shaped scraper (11) and a flint knife (7) were also found over the central grave. Elsewhere in the mound material a flint scraper (12) a flint knife (15) and the tip of a leaf-shaped arrowhead (16) were found , also several worked flints and flint flakes (17) and two sherds of an urn. Reference (b) lists the point of a wooden stake among the finds from the barrow. This stake was found in Mortimer barrow 233.", "FindAltSiteRel": "E.R Yorks."}}, {"id": 144203, "created": "2020-07-19T03:01:47.205280", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84644, "user_id": 658, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-07-19T03:43:23.496153", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "c. SE 90; 62", "Site": "Humberside, Towthorpe, Mortimer barrow 139", "CollHist": "Collection:\r\nHull Museum\r\nItems: (1)\r\n           (2)\r\n           (3)\r\n           (4)\r\n           (5)\r\n           (6)\r\n           (7)\r\n          (8)\r\n          (9)\r\n          (10)\r\n          (11)\r\n          (12)\r\n          (13)\r\n          (14)\r\n         (15)\r\n         (16)\r\nWhereabouts of remainder unknown.", "Contents": "Metal:\r\n(1) Dagger with damaged hilt plate; originally with six rivets.\r\n(2-3)  Remains of organic sheath and ?sheet bronze found as green powder.\r\n\r\nOther:\r\n(4) Perforated stone hammer\r\n(5) Traces of wooden handle of (4)\r\n(6) Plano-convex flint knife\r\n(7) Flint knife trimmed along one edge\r\n(8) Flint flake with serrated edge\r\n(9) Flint flake with finely serrated edge\r\n(10) Round scraper\r\n(11) Spoon-shaped scraper\r\n(12) Pear-shaped scraper\r\n(13) Carbonized material found under skeleton\r\n(14) Flint splinter\r\n(15) Flint knife\r\n(16) Tip of leaf-shpaed arrowhead\r\n(17) Worked flints and flint flakes\r\n(18) Two sherds of an urn\r\n(19) Small sherd of \"British Pottery\".\r\n\r\n", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec.: S.H. 9.3.81", "ContextType": "2a Grave", "BiblioSources": "(a) Mortimer (1905) 3-6 Plate I, Figs. 8-10\r\n(b) Sheppard (1929) 1-3, Nos. 7-10, ii-xii\r\n(c) Ap Simon (1954) App. A, No. 14\r\n(d) Gerloff (1975) 71, No. 111", "Circumstances": "     Opened by Mortimer between 7-30 Nov. 1870. It was situated at the W end of the Towthorpe plantation and is one of a group of 21 barrows set in a West-East direction along a green lane from Aldro nearly to Sledmore. Three cup-shaped pits A.B. & C, cut into chalk, were filled with blue clay and local soil. Burnt wood was found in all the pits and a shard of \"British Pottery\" (19) in B. In a large oblong pit below the centre of the barrow an extended male inhumation was found in a boat-shaped [maco] of clay, lying on a bed of [carbmired] material (13). A dagger-blade (1) and the remains of a sheath of organic material (2) and sheet bronze (3) found as green powder, lay by the forearm, and a perforated stone hammer (4) with traces of its wooden handle (5) lay by the head. Close to the facial bones was a plano-convex flint knife (6). A few calcinoid bones of a child were found in the midst of decayed wood 3 ft. from the base of the barrow on the ESE side, with a splinter of dark flint (14). In the material over the central grave a flint flake with a serrated edge (8) was found, and another with a finely serrated edge (9). A circular scraper (10), a spoon-shaped scraper (11) and a flint knife (7) were also found over the central grave. Elsewhere in the mound material: a flint scraper (12), a flint knife (15) and the tip of a leaf-shaped arrowhead (16) were found, also several worked flints and flint flakes (17) and two sherds of an urn. Reference (b) lists the point of a woooden stake among the finds from the barrow. This stake was found in Mortimer barrow 233.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n (10)", "FindAltSiteRel": "E.R. Ynks."}}]