Monument record 0037500000 - BARROW CROFT

Summary

Bronze Age cremation found in the nineteenth century at Barrow Croft

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  • Planning Notification Area: Bronze Age cremation urns found in the 19th century
  • SHINE: Site of a Bronze Age cremation burial at Barrow Croft

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Type and Period (1)

  • CREMATION (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Description

LARGE CINERARY URN DISCOVERED CONTAINING CHIEFLY CALCINED HUMAN BONES. SMALLER URN CONTAINED WHITISH POWDER CONSISTING OF CHALK, FLINTS, WOOD, CHARCOAL, SPICULAE OF BONE & LIME CARBONATE (B1).
WIDESPREAD BRONZE AGE PRACTICE OF BURYING CREMATIONS IN URNS WITH MOUTH DOWNWARDS (B5).

Sources (9)

  • <1>SBC14746 Bibliographic reference: SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON PROCEEDINGS 1889 2ND SERIES 12 PP338- 346 (J PARKER).
  • <2>SBC13319 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 1889 6 PP259-260 & ILLUS (DISCOVERY OF BRITISH POTTERY).
  • <3>SBC134 Bibliographic reference: ABERCROMBY J 1912 STUDY OF BRONZE AGE POTTERY 2 P30 & FIG 264.
  • <4>SBC20460 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1905. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume I. Volume 1. pp181-182.
  • <5>SBC6246 Bibliographic reference: J F Head. 1955. Early Man in South Buckinghamshire. pp56-57; Figs 16,17 (5).
  • <6>SBC1900 Bibliographic reference: BRITISH MUSEUM DEC 1960.
  • <7>SBC1290 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTERS 1957 & 1962.
  • <8>SBC10628 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD.
  • <9>SBC7965 Bibliographic reference: LONGWORTH I W 1984 COLLARED URNS OF THE BRONZE AGE IN GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND P153 (NOS 57-58) & P.

Location

Grid reference SU 88400 91300 (point)
Civil Parish HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC11824)
  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12220)

Record last edited

Nov 22 2024 8:34PM

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