[{"id": 141385, "created": "2020-06-21T12:49:39.834853", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84775, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-21T13:17:47.270957", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SU 5255;3653", "Site": "HAMPSHIRE;[WINCHESTER];MICHELDEVER;MICHELDEVER WOOD;Barrow R.4", "CollHist": "Finds said to be going to be deposited with the Hampshire Museums Service by May 1980", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Awl\r\n(2) Awl\r\nOther\r\n(3) Collared urn (collapsed in fragments)\r\n(4) Small cord-decorated cup in collared urn fabric\r\n(5) Collared urn\r\n(6) Fragments of a collared urn\r\n(7) More than 10,500 pieces of worked flint\r\n(8) Bucket urn sherds\r\n(9) About 170 collared urn sherds\r\n(10) Small amount of Neolithic and Bell beaker sherds\r\n(11) Numerous pieces of worked flint\r\n(12) A few Iron Age & R.B. sherds", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 14.8.80", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE / C / ? O", "BiblioSources": "(a) Fasham (1978 ) 5-40\r\n(b) Fasham & Ross (1978) 47-67", "Circumstances": "Fieldwork in advance of a proposed motorway extension (M3) led to the discovery in 1973 of a previously unrecorded barrow consisting of three axially aligned mounds enclosed by a continuous oval ditch. Excavation of the site took place in 1974, directed by Fasham for the M3 Archaeological Rescue Commitee. Further small scale work was carried out in 1977 to determine the limits around the site of the post-barrow flint industry (reference b).\r\nExcavation disclosed that each of the three mounds covered a primary cremation of Early Bronze Age date.\r\nIn the East mound a primary cremation was found in a central, oval burial pit, under an inverted collared urn (3). Among the bones an awl (1) was found. In a small pit lying 0.75m eas of the E. Mound a small cord decorated cup in collared urn fabric was found within its filling (3).\r\nThe flint cairn, lying between the E. 1 W. Mounds covered an excentrically placed circular burial pit in which a cremation with an awl (2) was found beneath an inverted collared urn (5).\r\nThe West Mound covered a central oval burial pit containing a neat circular deposit of ashes and cremated bones. It is suggested that this cremation may have been deposited in a perishable container. There was a possible secondary cremation at the top of the W. mound, where a concentration of collared urn sherds (6) was associated with one fragment of a human bone. It is suggested that these finds may represent the remains of a secondary cremation disturbed by post-barrow activity. The flint capping of the West Mound and the flint cairn were used as a quarry to provide raw material for a substancial flint industry (7) of Middle Bronze Age date, associated in knapping clusters with sherds of bucket urns (8).\r\nAbout 170 collared urn sherds (9) - about 50 of which may belong to Urn (6) - and small amounts of Neolithic and Bell beaker sherds (10) were found in primary barrow contexts (mounds, cairn and primary ditch silting), together with numerous worked flints (11). Some Iron Age and RB activity is indicated by a few sherds on the upper parts of the mounds and ditch, but no features, apart from one hearth in the E. side of the ditch's upper fill, could be directly associated with these sherds.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 145167, "created": "2020-07-31T14:38:16.666428", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84775, "user_id": 243, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-07-31T14:53:23.979551", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SU 5255 3653", "Site": "HAMPSHIRE; [WINCHESTER]; MICHELDEVER; MICHELDEVER WOOD; Barrow R.4", "CollHist": "Finds said to be going to be deposited with the Hampshire Museums Service by May 1980", "Contents": "Metal; (1) Awl; (2) Awl; Other; (3) Collared urn (collapsed in fragments); (4) Small cord-decorated cup in collared urn fabric; (5) Collared urn; (6) Fragments of a collared urn; (7) More than 10, 500 pieces of worked flint; (8) Bucket urn sherds; (9) About 170 collared urn sherds; (10) Small amounts of Neolithic and Bell beaker sherds; (11) Numerous pieces of worked flint; (12) A few Iron Age & R.B. sherds", "comments": "Question mark in Context Type is original to card and not a transcriber's note.; In Circumstances, after the continued card break, the original recorder erroneously identifies the decorated cup in collared urn fabric as being item (3).  In the same section, the card recorder previously assigned item (3) to the inverted collared urn and the item is listed under that numbering in contents.  I have altered the transcription to reflect the cup as item (4).; In Bibliography, Reference (a) in the dated portion in parenthesis, there is a elevated period shown on the card, this is represented in the transcription as a single quotation mark as I do not have the correct symbol available.", "ArchiveEtc": "[Rec.] S.H. 14.8.80", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE / C / ?O", "BiblioSources": "(a) Fasham (1978 ') 5-40; (b) Fasham & Ross (1978) 47-67", "Circumstances": "Fieldwork in advance of a proposed motorway extension (M3) led to the discovery in 1973 of a previously unrecorded barrow consisting of three axially aligned mounds enclosed by a continuous oval ditch.  Excavation of hte site took place in 1974, directed by Fasham for the M3 Archaeological Rescue Committee.  Further small scale work was carried out in 1977 to determine the limits around the site of the post. barrow flint industry (reference b).; Excavation disclosed that each of the three mounds covered a primary cremation of Early Bronze Age date.; In the East mound a primary cremation was found in a central, oval burial pit, under an inverted collared urn (3).  Among the bones an awl (1); continued...; continued.; was found.  In a small pit laying 0.75m east of the E. Mound a small cord decorated cup in collared urn fabric was found within its filling (4).; The flint cairn, lying between the E. & W. Mounds covered an eccentrically placed circular burial pit in which a cremation with an awl (2) was found beneath an inverted collard urn (5).; The West Mound covered a central oval burial pit containing a neat circular deposit of ashes and cremated bones.  It is suggested that this cremation may have been deposited in a perishable container.  There was a possible secondary cremation at the top of the W. mound, where a concentration of collared urn sherds (6) was associated with one fragment of a human bone.  It is suggested that these finds may represent the remains of a secondary cremation distrubed by post-barrow activity.  The flint capping of the west mound and the flint cairn were used as a quarry to provide raw material for a substantial flint industry. (7) of Middle Bronze Age date, associated in knapping clusters with sherds of bucket urns (8).; About 170 collared urn sherds (9) - about 50 of which may belong to urn (6) - and small amounts of Neolithic and Bell beaker sherds (10) were found in primary barrow contexts (mounds, cairn and primary ditch silting) together with numerous worked flints (11). Some Iron Age and RB activity is indicated by a few sherds on the upper parts of the mounds and ditch, but no features, apart from one hearth in the E. side of the ditch's upper fill, could be directly associated with these sherds.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}]