| Summary : An Early-Middle Bronze Age round barrow, part of the barrow cemetery at Field Farm, Burghfield. The barrow was identified as a cropmark, and is situated to the northwest of the bell barrow (SU 67 SE 155). Excavations in advance of gravel extraction in 1988 found it to be irregular in shape. The barrow ditch had an internal diameter of 13 metres and comprised four segments separated by narrow causeways. A pit containing an almost complete Barrel Urn inverted over a cremation was situated to the south of the centre of the mound. Features including a ditch and row of postholes and finds suggesting settlement activities were identified immediately to the south of the barrow. These have been tentatively interpreted as boundary separating a funerary area, represented by the barrow and its cremation, from an area of more domestic activity. |