Monument Number 1455608 |
| Hob Uid: 1455608 | |
Location :
Oxfordshire
Vale of White Horse
West Berkshire
Sparsholt, Lambourn
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| Grid Ref : SU3251083263 |
| Summary : Barrow 1. A Bronze Age bowl barrow situated 390 metres north of Sevenbarrows House, forming part of the Lambourn Seven Barrow Cemetery. The barrow, known as Barrow 1 by Case, survives as an earthwork and has a barrow mound with a diameter of 40 metres and height of 3 metres. The ditch is visible to the north and northeast and survives as an earthwork 3 metres wide and 0.10 metres deep. Excavations during the 1850s located remains of a funeral pyre with a human cremation accompanied by a bronze awl, a riveted dagger and an incense cup. Also within the barrow but later than its construction was an inhumation, a cremation within an urn sealed under a chalk casing and a further 112 cremations above the chalk casing. Of these cremations 58 were in urns and all were surrounded by sarsen stones. |
More information : [Group centred SU 328 828] Seven Barrows [G.T.]
Tumulus [G.T] six times
Tumulus [G.T] (sites of) (1)
This barrow is one of thirty six barrows listed by Case (2) and is listed as Barrow 1. [see plan AO/LP/63/105 for numbering and siting]. The barrow was excavated between 1850-1858 by E. Martin Atkins and was found to be an outstanding example containing 112 secondary Late Bronze Age cremations, 58 in urns, 54 without urns, but all enclosed with sarsen stones (2-3). Most of the finds from the excavations are in the British Museum (6).
Scheduled (7). (2-7)
The barrow (Barrow 1) has been identified on the ground and
surveyed at 1:2500.
SU 3251 8326, a ditched bowl barrow. Height of mound 3.7metres. Ditch destroyed since excavation. (8)
The barrow (Barrow 1) is visible as an earthwork and is as described above. It has been mapped from aerial photographs. (9)
A bowl barrow situated 390 metres north of Sevenbarrows House, forming part of the Seven Barrows Cemetery. The barrow survives as an earthwork and has a barrow mound with a diameter of 40 metres and height of 3 metres. The ditch is visible to the north and northeast and survives as an earthwork 3 metres wide and 0.10 metres deep. The excavations during the 1850s located remains of a funeral pyre with a human cremation accompanied by a bronze awl, a riveted dagger and an incense cup. Also within the barrow but later than its construction was an inhumation, a cremation within an urn sealed under a chalk casing and a further 112 cremations above the chalk casing. Of these cremations 58 were in urns and all were surrounded by sarsen stones. (10)
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