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The Excavation of a Neolithic Oval Barrow at North Marden, West Sussex, 1982

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2014

Peter Drewett ,
C. Cartwright ,
S. Browne ,
K. D. Thomas ,
A. Thompson ,
S. Thorpe ,
S. Tucker  and
K. Whittaker
Peter Drewett
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY
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Abstract

An extensively plough-damaged oval barrow of the third millennium bc was excavated. The entire mound had been removed by ploughing. No burials were found under the site of the mound but disarticulated human skeletal material was found in the ditches. The main flanking ditches appear to have silted in naturally with evidence of Beaker activity and Romano-British agriculture in the higher levels. Some evidence of deliberate back-filling, including the burial of carved chalk objects, was found in the ditches at the east end. A single Saxon hut was excavated in the north-east corner of the barrow and a rubbish deposit containing Middle Saxon pottery was found in the upper levels of the ditch in the south-west corner of the barrow.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , 1986 , pp. 31 - 51
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1986

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