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	garden cart - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about garden cart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Round barrows belong mainly to the Bronze Age, although in historic times there are examples from the Roman period, and some of the Saxon and most of the Danish invaders were barrow-builders.
		Barrows from the Roman era, such as the Six Hills at Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and the Bartlow Hills at Ashdon, Essex, have a distinctive steep and conical outline, and in southeast Britain usually cover the graves of wealthy merchant traders.
		Barrows were erected over boat burials during the Saxon period, and the Sutton Hoo boat burial excavated in Suffolk during 1938–39 was that of an East Anglian king of Saxon times.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /garden+cart (986 words)

	AllRefer.com - barrow, in archaeology (Archaeology, General) - Encyclopedia
		A barrow built primarily of stone is often called a cairn.
		Barrows occur in many parts of the world; they were built during the Neolithic period in Western Europe and in recent times in Buddhist countries.
		Round barrows, usually dating from the Bronze Age, normally contain a single burial.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/barrow.html (345 words)

	Astronomical Alignments at a Bronze Age Round Barrow in Monmouthshire, South Wales
		Unlike the communal burials of the Neolithic long cairns, round barrows were often built solely for one person, and whilst many contained inhumations placed in a crouched position, cremation became increasingly practised.
		The round barrow tradition was introduced by the mysterious 'Beaker Folk' of the late Neolithic, so named because of the decorated pottery often found alongside their burials.
		The round barrow at Carrow Hill (St Brides Netherwent), which lies 3.2 miles (5.2 km) west of the Crick barrow, was excavated in 1860 and also in 1975.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /mjpowell/Crick_Barrow/Crick.htm (3331 words)

	Bere Regis Bronze Age
		Round barrows vary enormously in sizefrom prominent ones some 10 feet (3 metres) high, to low inconspicuous mounds located with difficulty even with the aid of a map.
		Many barrows have of course entirely disappeared during the 3,000 or so years since they were first constructed, but sometimes a name survives, or a Bronze Age object is turned up by the plough, and indicates the site of a former barrow.
		Known as `End Barrow' it is prominently situated on the strip of heathland on the east side of the main road north of Chamberlaynes.
	www.bereregis.org /Bronze.htm (3048 words)

	The Wiltshire Web - Barrows
		This barrow is 225 feet long by 120 feet wide and 15 feet high and also the acts as the terminous of the second stone avenue out of Avebury.
		The sarsens from the burial chamber protrude from the barrow.
		One of the biggest barrows in Britain, this is a spectacular barrow measuring 340 feet long by 75 feet wide, and a line of stones at its east end up to 12 feet high forming a corridor 40 feet into the barrow.
	www.wiltshire-web.co.uk /history/barrows.htm (1369 words)

	Adrian The Ageing Hippy's Photos Of Came Wood Barrow Cemetery
		Came Wood barrow cemetery consists of a Neolithic bank barrow together with a number of Bronze Age round barrows (of the bell, bowl and pond varieties), in an area containing many other burial-mounds.
		A round barrow has been built overlaying its NW end, from the top of which several of the photos below were taken.
		Round barrows to the NW of the bank...
	www.adrian.smith.clara.net /came_wood.html (274 words)

	British Archaeology, no 32, March 1998: Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Undamaged round barrows, again in earth or stone, have the shape of an inverted bowl and almost always an encircling ditch, but are often now near-obliterated by weathering or ploughing.
		Round barrows have to be differentiated from smaller mottes, or castle mounds, many of which were ditched like barrows, but which often have traces of bailey earthworks attached.
		Barrow cemeteries, mostly linear and visible from the monument, encircle Stonehenge, Avebury, the Knowlton Circles and the Thornborough Circles in Yorkshire.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba32/ba32feat.html (4415 words)

	Stone circles, barrows, and henges in Britain
		There are two main types of long barrows; those made entirely of earth, called, you guessed it, earthen long barrows, and those made with a chamber of large stones, called megalithic or chambered long barrows.
		Another curious thing about the barrows is that the dead were usually interred after all the flesh had been removed, and occasionally after the bones had then been burned in a form of cremation ceremony.
		Barrows were a new form of tomb brought to England by the Beaker People around 2200 B.C. The main thing to note about barrow mounds is that they are primarily burial places for individuals rather than communal sites like the earlier long barrows.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/prehistoric_monuments.htm (1725 words)

	Archaeology Wordsmith
		The long barrow was a tribal or family burial vault built of stone slabs, some weighing many tons, and covered with earth or stones.
		Bowl barrows --- simple round mounds, often surrounded by a ditch --- were the most common form, used throughout the Bronze Age and sporadically also in the Iron Age.
		barrow burials occur also in Roman and post-Roman times: one of the most famous of all barrows in Britain is that covering the Anglo-Saxon boat burial at Sutton Hoo.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?category=&where=headword&terms=cairn (605 words)

	British Archaeology magazine, August 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Usually, a distinction is made between the long barrows of the earlier Neolithic, in which the bones of dozens of people were jumbled together, and the round barrows of the later Neolithic and Bronze Age.
		Close examination of the round barrow burial rite suggests that the memories produced by the funerary rites involved a judicious balance between commemorating some aspects of the person's life and the concealment or control of others.
		In a barrow from the Shrewton barrow cemetery near Stonehenge, for example, the dagger was wrapped in mosses upon burial.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba60/feat3.shtml (2162 words)

	A project design for the excavation of a round barrow near Crowlink, East Sussex
		The round barrow which is the subject of this proposal is located in a prominent position on the crest of Baily’s Hill, Crowlink, East Sussex.
		The remains under investigation comprise a bowl barrow (Barrow A) with a surviving east-west diameter of approximately 15.5m and a north-south measurement of 13.5m.
		Excavations of ritual and ceremonial mounds undertaken in the vicinity of Barrow A
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /archcom/projects/summarys/html98_9/cc2105.htm (3471 words)

	FieldSchool
		The cropmarks of a barrow cemetery and settlement are visible in the field to the south of Red Castle overlooking Lunan Bay.
		In the first season a trench measuring 60m by 30m was topsoiled and revealed the remains of the ditches of at least five square barrows, one further possible square barrow, two round barrows and two unenclosed burials.
		Both round barrows were approximately 8.5m in diameter; one had a slightly deeper ditch.
	www.arcl.ed.ac.uk /arch/fschool/redcastle.htm (825 words)

	barrow, in archaeology. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In European prehistory the characteristic barrows are either long or round.
		The round barrow was commonly bell shaped; another type had a low central mound that invariably contained cremated remains and was surrounded by a walled ditch or a circle of standing stones, usually about 150 ft (50 m) in diameter.
		The round barrow or stupa of Asia is usually a shrine for relics of the Buddha.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/barrow.html (276 words)

	Round barrows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There are over 400 known round barrow sites in the Cotswold area with the likelihood of many more to be added as further detailed exploration is completed and the status of the many ploughed-out ringditches verified.
		Those few barrows which have survived adequately have done so because they are located in areas never threatened in the first place such as woodland; most of those which lie beyond them have been allowed to deteriorate beyond the point at which further investigation remains a viable option.
		A group of eroding round barrows has been selected for further investigation and includes sites in various states of erosion all from a localised area to allow at least some comparative work to be undertaken.
	www.brad.ac.uk /acad/archsci/field_proj/amarsh/rndbarr.htm (276 words)

	Archaeological Dictionary
		barrow: A mound, usually of earth and rubble, and occurring in a variety of shapes and sizes, which was raised over to cover either single or multiple burials.
		On the continent of Europe both long and round barrows are found in association with megalithic tombs during the Neolithic and Copper Age, while round barrows covering single inhumations or cremations occur in a number of different areas in the Bronze Age and Iron Age.
		Indeed, barrow burials occur also in Roman and post-Roman times: one of the most famous of all barrows in Britain is that covering the Anglo-Saxon boat burial at SUTTON HOO.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /oddballs/mcog/facts_b.html (1193 words)

	Barrows, Ritual & Landscape in EBA England
		The common denominator of all these patterns is that the barrows seem to have formed a major component of the ritual landscape.
		The barrows were sited at set distances from the monuments and the monuments were placed so that many barrow sites were clearly visible from them.
		Thus the circularity of the round barrows themselves, and the evidence for stake circles embodied beneath and within them (Ashbee 1960; Christie 1967; Green and Rollo-Smith 1984) became reflected in circular arrangements at the landscape scale.
	www.arch-ant.bham.ac.uk /bufau/research/sb/barhtml.htm (1019 words)

	THE CIRCLES. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To many observers the most staggering thing was the way the design fit in between the round barrows and the edge of the field.
		I count at least 16 round barrows and a possible long barrow in the shot (the lush, green place on the upper-right edge of the picture).
		Barrows are believed to be burial mounds made by the ancient people.
	www.cropcircleconnector.com /Sorensen/2002/ribbons2002.html (381 words)

	ipedia.com: Duggleby Howe Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To the east of the barrow, one within the enclosure and one outside, are two ring ditches, believed to be of Bronze Age date.
		Although the barrow itself was long known, it was not until 1979 that the existence of the enclosure was confirmed using aerial photographs taken by D.N. Riley.
		The primary round barrow, comprised of "clayey or earthy matter" was then erected and in it were included the remains of four infants, three children, an adolescent and an adult.
	www.ipedia.com /duggleby_howe.html (882 words)

	Barrows in Folklore & Archaeology (by David Taylor) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This crossover between barrows as entrances to the realm of faerie and the dead is a curious one, which seems to indicate a strong link between faeries and the dead, even that, in certain circumstances, the dead become faeries as an evolutionary cycle(15).
		Animal bones have been found in barrows such as Hetty Pegler's Tump (Uley tumulus) in Gloucestershire, where the jaw bones of wild boars have been discovered, leading to speculation that the animal was used as a family totem, a psychopomp, bridging the gap between the worlds(21).
		Barrows are a rich source of knowledge for those with the wisdom to listen and the urge to learn.
	www.moonridge.plus.com /parasearch/barrows.html (3344 words)

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		Surrounding the barrow was an "irregular circle of turves" and nearby a perforated whetstone and bronze dagger with wooden sheath were found (Greig 1982, 11).
		The position or existence of the barrow mapped near the western edge of the larger field (centred in grid square 6) cannot be confirmed by the magnetometer survey.
		At least two of the detected barrows have significant anomalies near their centres, although the nature of the features responsible, whether ancient or modern (such as former excavation trenches), is not clear.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /reports/butterbump (1530 words)

	hertsdirect.org Round Barrows, Graffridge Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Round Barrows, Graffridge Wood, Knebworth are burial mounds which lie close together, but are not contemporary.
		Traces of the original ditches surrounding the barrows can still be seen, and it is also clear that both mounds have been dug into in the past.
		The mound is covered in grass, birch trees and an oak, and a path on the south leads to the summit.
	www.hertsdirect.com /libsleisure/heritage1/archaeology/moreaboutarch/archsites/roundbarrows (251 words)

	Channel 4 - Time Team 2002
		In the Neolithic period, long barrows were erected over wooden or stone burial chambers, while very many round barrows of various sorts were built in the succeeding Bronze Age.
		Although most of the barrows that are still visible in vast numbers, particularly on uplands, date to this time, there are also barrows dating from other periods.
		The Bronze Age saw the introduction of cremation of the dead and burials in round barrows.
	www.channel4.com /history/timeteam/abc_b.html (895 words)

	Isle of Wight Nostalgia Site: Archaeology
		The groups of barrows described below are unploughed examples on permanent grassland and have survived in fairly good condition, but most of them have suffered from the activities of medieval barrow robbers or early nineteenth century excavators as the large craters in the centre of many of these mounds testify.
		Six of the mounds are bowl barrows which are the most common type of round barrow, consisting of a simple mound with or without a ditch.
		The general area of the barrows are at map reference SZ 571876, via footpath number 24 to Ashey Seamark, however part of the route is not a public right of way.
	www.invectis.co.uk /iow/archae.htm (2058 words)

	Welcome to the Neolithic Monument Complex of Thornborough, North Yorkshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Round barrows first appeared in the fourth millennium BC and became common in the early Bronze Age.
		The nine known round barrows across the Thornborough landscape form an interesting palimpsest of data.
		Another two barrows, part of the Three Hills Barrow Group, were excavated by Lukis (1870), as was the Centre Hill Barrow, prior to their destruction.
	thornborough.ncl.ac.uk /desktop_assessment/desktop_rbs.htm (538 words)

	Gallery grave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two parallel walls of stone slabs were erected to form a corridor and covered with a line of capstones.
		The rectangular tomb was covered with a barrow or a cairn.
		They are distributed across Europe and they are usually sub-divided by period, region and also into more generic types of chambered long barrows, chambered round barrows, chambered long cairns and chambered round cairns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gallery_grave (181 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! TRAVEL GUIDE: Avebury - Britannia's Magical History Tour
		The landlord will tell you that the round barrows are single burial mounds of very ancient vintage.
		The stones which mark the entryway to the barrow are large sarsen stones, weighing 7-10 tons each.
		Easily visible from West Kennett Long Barrow, to the north and slightly to the west, is the enigmatic construction known as Silbury Hill.
	www.britannia.com /travel/magical/magic3.html (1070 words)

	barrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They usually contain a chamber of wood or stone slabs, or a turf-lined cavity, in which the body or bodies of the deceased were placed.
		Round barrows belong mainly to the Bronze Age, although in historic times there are examples from the Roman period, and some of the Saxon and most of the Danish invaders were barrow-builders.
		In northern Europe, round barrows were sometimes built above a tree-trunk coffin in which waterlogged conditions have preserved nonskeletal material, such as those found in Denmark dating from around 1000
	tiscali-b2b.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0014570.html (581 words)

	Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust - Projects - Longer reports - PFRM Survey
		The round barrows and burial cairns are by far the most numerous, with 276 sites identified to date, accounting for 66% of all monuments.
		When excavated, round barrows are normally found to cover burials, either inhumations or cremations, placed within a pit or, more commonly perhaps in upland areas, a stone-lined cist.
		There are 267 round barrows or possible round barrows of various forms recorded in Radnorshire, of which 160 are earthen mounds and 82 are stone-built cairns.
	www.cpat.org.uk /projects/longer/pfr/pfrrad/pfrrad.htm (3314 words)

	Bronze Age - Beaker People - Wessex Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There was a shift away from mass burial, in long barrows, to individual burials, in round barrows, and it is in these that copper and gold grave goods have been found.
		The bowl barrow is the most common type of round barrow and is a simple round mound, usually with a surrounding ditch and sometimes a bank.
		A pond barrow is a circular depression surrounded by an outer bank and can contain cremations, inhumations, and dismembered inhumations, as well as empty pits, and may have had other ritual functions besides burial.
	www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk /bronze.htm (1399 words)

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