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77:. There is sometimes present an additional bank, external to the ditch. The ditch is typically the source of the material used to create the mound and is therefore described as a "quarry-ditch". A burial pit beneath the mound usually contains human remains, sometimes cremated, sometimes simply interred. Grave goods such as daggers or pottery vessels are commonly found within the burial pit also. An example at 59: 51: 73:
In the United Kingdom, they take the form of a circular mound or mounds within a circular ditch, the mounds being separated from the ditch and each other by a
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Extract from English Heritage's Record of Scheduled Monuments: Bell barrow 350m north of Haydon Farm, Sutton Veny
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has no burial associated with it. Most bell barrows in the United Kingdom date to the early
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English Heritage National Monuments Record: Monument No. 918833
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included a bronze-age wooden coffin. The bell barrow in
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Section and plan of a bell barrow with a narrow berm
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tumulus
John Aubrey
William Stukeley


Colt Hoare
berm
Sutton Veny
Milton Lilbourne
Wiltshire
Bronze Age
Leslie Grinsell
typology
Devil's Humps, Stoughton
Devil's Jumps, Treyford
Extract from English Heritage's Record of Scheduled Monuments: Bell barrow 350m north of Haydon Farm, Sutton Veny
English Heritage National Monuments Record: Monument No. 918833
Archived
Wayback Machine
Bell Barrows monument class description
Categories
Bronze Age England
Types of monuments and memorials
Barrows in England

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