More information : [TA 0489770] A barrow, one of the Sharpe Howes tumuli
identified by Mitchelson as Greenwell's No. 239. The finds are
in the British Museum. (1)
Situated 200 ft. N.W. from Sharpe Howe; 48 ft. in diameter and
1 1/2 ft. high, made of earth and some chalk stones.
It contained four graves of presumably five adults (one of the
graves containing a cremation as well as an inhumation). Two of
the graves had a flint knife in association with the body, and
with a third, a fragmentary food-vessel, flint scrapers and
a piece of unworked jet. The barrow material itself yielded
five round scrapers and a flake.
None of the burials were at the centre and the absence of
disturbance suggests that the inhumations were contemporary. (2)
Reduced by ploughing to little more than a ground swelling, but
its limits are still definable. Published survey (25") revised;
q.v. TA 07 NW 25. (3)
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