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An Iron Age Barrow Burial at Bromfield, Shropshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2014

Evan Gwilym Hughes
Evan Gwilym Hughes*
Affiliation:
Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
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Abstract

Excavation of a small ring-ditch in advance of gravel extraction at Bromfield, Shropshire, produced rare evidence for an Iron Age inhumation burial associated with a barrow. The burial, identified from a soil stain, was associated with fragments of a La Tene I iron brooch and a penannular iron bracelet with adhering textiles, and a bronze pendant, suggesting a date in the 5th–4th century BC.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , 1994 , pp. 395 - 402
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1994

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