| Summary : A bowl barrow in Scrubbity Coppice, one of a group excavated by Pitt Rivers in 1882-83. Pitt Rivers' barrow xvi (RCHME's Sixpenny Handley 49. Grinsell's Handley 8), it was excavated on April 2nd 1883. Adjacent to ST 91 NE 99, prior to excavation it was visible as a mound 36 feet in diameter and up to 1.5 feet high. The mound comprised earth and flints, and beneath it, in its northwest sector, was what Pitt Rivers described as a "large depression" cut into the chalk to a depth of around 12 inches. Rather irregular inshape, at one end was a Collared Urn inverted over a cremation deposit close to a "hole" (ie small pit or post hole). Over 200 flints, mostly flakes and cores, were found in the mound. [NB this site was originally described as part of ST 91 NE 17. That record should be consulted for some additional sources and information] |