A Guide to Prehistoric England |
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14 miles 1st century B.C. acres appears approached bank and ditch barrow cemetery beads bell belong bones bowl bowl-barrows Bronze Age built burial cairn camp Castle central centre chalk chamber circle circular close consists contained counterscarp bank covered cremation Date deep defences diam earth earthworks edge encloses enclosure entrance Excavation facing Farm fields Finds flint grave Grave-goods Hill hill-fort huts in-turned inner inside Iron Age late latter least lies long barrow mile N miles N.W. mound Museum nearly neolithic original original entrance outer oval perhaps period places pottery probably protected rampart recorded rectangular remains ring road Roman roughly round barrow runs seen settlement shows side single skeleton slight standing steep stone Stonehenge suggest surrounding traces track wall wide Wood