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The Excavation of an Oval Burial Mound of the Third Millennium bc at Alfriston, East Sussex, 1974

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

Peter Drewett ,
C. R. Cartwright ,
T. P. O'Connor ,
C. Green  and
K. D. Thomas
Peter Drewett
Affiliation:
Sussex Archaeological Field Unit, Institute of Archaeology, University of London
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Summary

The small oval burial mound at Alfriston, East Sussex, being one of only twelve certain burial structures of the 3rd millennium bc in Sussex, was totally excavated in 1974 prior to its final obliteration by ploughing. The barrow was found to consist of a simple dump mound derived from material out of flanking ditches. It covered a single burial pit containing the crouched skeleton of a young female. Information concerning the post-Neolithic land use of Alfriston Down was obtained from the ditch silts and expanded by an intensive field survey.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 41 , December 1975 , pp. 119 - 152
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1975

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