| Summary : Three Early Neolithic "flat" graves located and excavated in 1983-5 during work focused on the Barrow Hills, Radley (SU 59 NW 8) monument complex. They may have formed part of a small cemetery. One featured a crouched inhumation of a child with a flint blade on the pelvis. A layer of charcoal may have been the remains of a coffin or mortuary structure. A small potsherd was also found. The skeleton produced a date of 3650-3100 BC (calibrated). The second grave contained remains of a crouched inhumation, possibly an adult female, dated to 3800-3100 BC (calibrated). The third contaned a crouched inhumation of an adult male, dated to 3380-3090 BC (calibrated). Three flint flakes were also present. |