Summary

Barrow 420m S of Ivinghoe Beacon (from barrow 151504). Part of Ivinghoe Beacon Barrow Cemetery

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Bowl barrow on Ivinghoe Hills, 320m S of Ivinghoe Beacon. Part of the Ivinghoe Beacon round barrow cemetery. The monument is a small mound 5.5 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high and appears intact and undisturbed. The NMR estimates a 1m wide infilled ditch surrounds the mound, however Wainwright [2] suggests a 'scraped-up' construction. The proximity of this mound to other monuments of the same period adds significance to the site.

Barrow no.6 in Dyer's 1959 study of Chiltern barrows [1].

(G Marshall)

Brief Description of Round Barrow Cemeteries.

Round barrows (of which a bowl barrow is one type) date to the Bronze Age (2000-700B.C.).They usually comprise of fairly closely spaced groups of up to 30 barrows. The construction is that of rubble or earth being piled up to cover single or multiple burials. In the case of the bowl barrow type, the mound material was principally obtained by digging a circular ditch and heaping the spoil in the centre to cover the burial. The surrounding ditches often silt up over time, but are usually visible as faint depression or as a crop mark.
Most cemeteries developed over a considerable period of time, often many centuries They were also often re-used for secondary burials as in the case of Anglo-Saxon burials. They exhibit considerable diversity of burial rite, plan and form, frequently including several different types of round barrow. Occasionally earlier forms of long barrow are associated with round barrow cemeteries. Wherever large scale excavation has been undertaken beyond barrows, contemporary and/or later "flat" burials have been found. This should be taken into consideration when assessing how best to manage the overall barrow cemetery landscape.
Round barrow cemeteries occur across most of lowland Britain, with a marked concentration in Wessex and in some cases they cluster around other monuments such as henges.

(M Solik)

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