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A Barrow Cemetery of the Second Millennium B.C. at Tallington, Lincolnshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

W. G. Simpson
W. G. Simpson
Affiliation:
Archaeology Department, The Queen's University of Belfast
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Summary

The excavation examined two barrows which formed part of a cemetery in use towards the middle of the second millennium BC. The smaller barrow (Site 17) contained a large pit-grave in which successive inhumation burials had been made associated with a long-necked beaker, bronze earrings and a flint knife. The larger barrow (Site 16) began as a small mound covering an inhumation burial with a Food Vessel. Four stake circles were added following a second inhumation burial and the original mound was enlarged on two subsequent occasions. Many features of the barrows find their closest parallels in Yorkshire.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 42 , December 1976 , pp. 215 - 239
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1976

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