| Summary : A bowl barrow in Scrubbity Coppice, one of a group excavated by Pitt Rivers in 1882-83. Pitt Rivers' barrow xi (RCHME's Sixpenny Handley 45, Grinsell's Handley 3), and located a short distance southeast of ST 91 NE 95, it was excavated on January 9th 1883. A circular mound 28 feet in diameter, it was composed entirely of flint nodules, and contained a deposit of charcoal 9.5 feet by 4 feet in extent and up to 10 inches deep. No human remains were noted, but Pitt rivers suggested that the charcoal reporesented the remains of a funeral pyre after the cremated bone had been removed for burial elsewhere. 45 flint flakes were found among the nodules. [NB this barrow was formerly described as part of ST 91 NE 17. That record should be consulted for some additional information and sources] |