- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Piece of flint, flaked, with white patina. [MJD (Verve) 19/6/2017]
- Geographical reference
- England Oxfordshire West Oxfordshire Lyneham Lyneham Barrow
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Henry John Reynolds Moreton
- PRM source Constance Emily Reynolds Moreton
- PRM source Robert William Theodore Gunther
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Neolithic
- Date collected
- 1894
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1922
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 49 mm, Width: max 67 mm, Length: max 96 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1922.46.137
- Research and responses
Note that some of the skeletal material from this site is now held in the National History Museum, in London: 'We hold five partial skulls from Lyneham Barrow, Oxon. Listed here are these skulls with the National History Museum accession number [in italics], previous number, description and further remarks: PA SK 2669 [Present acc. no]; E.11.9/576 [Previous no]; Calvaria and mandible [Description]; Anglo-Saxon [Remarks]. PA SK 2670; E.11.9/577; Child's calvaria and mandible; Anglo-Saxon. PA SK 2671; E.11.9/578; Calvaria; Anglo-Saxon. PA SK 3304; 1952.2.20.2; Calvaria; Neolithic "Lyneham skull no.3" . PA SK 3704; 1952.2.20.1; Calvaria and mandible; Anglo-Saxon "Lyneham skull no.2". The first three skulls above derive from an excavation in 1922 headed by Lord Dulcie. The last two are from an excavation in 1952 headed by E. Comber. The present accession numbers are the ones to use in the cross-references. The biblioraphic ref in our registers for these five skulls is also to the Proc Soc Antiq (1895), vol. XV.' Rob Kruszynski, Curator, Palaeontology,The Natural History Museum.
Lyneham Barrow: see http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/59 [Biblliography from that site:
Bennett, Paul & Wilson, Tom, "The Old Stones of Rollright and District," Cockley: London 1999.
Brooks, J.A., "Ghosts and Witches of the Cotswolds," Jarrold: Norwich 1992
Crawford, O.G.S., "Long Barrows of the Cotswolds," John Bellows: Oxford 1932
Dyer, James, "Discovering Regional Archaeology: The Cotswolds and the Upper Thames," Shire: Tring 1970
L.V. Grinsell's "Ancient Burial Mounds of England," Methuen: London 1936.
James, Dave, 'A Brief Foray into Oxfordshire,' Glouc. Earth Mysteries 14, 1992
Turner, Mark, "Folklore and mysteries of the Cotswolds," Hale: London 1993;
Ref. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries 1895, 2nd Ser. vol. xv; http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/aburnham/eng/lyneham.htm [AP 18/08/2006]
Lyneham Barrow [SP 2975 2106] is recorded on the English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record under monument no. 332607. The barrow is described as follows "Neolithic long barrow and a standing stone. The barrow and stone are aligned south west-north east along a ridge with gives them a dominant position within the local landscape overlooking valleys to the north west and south east. The long barrow mound measures 32 metres in length and stands up to 1.75 metres high at its 19 metre wide north east end. At its tail, or south west end, it tapers away to ground level and measures just 4 metres wide. In 1894 a part excavation located two chambers on the south east side of the mound and at least one of these contained bone fragments, pottery and charcoal. Also found were two Anglo-Saxon burials which had been cut into the top of the existing mound. Unusually there was no evidence of flanking quarry ditches which are commonly found either side of long barrow mounds. Immediately north east, at a distance of 9 metres from the barrow mound, stands a single monolith, which was broken in 1923 but reset in its original location in 1924. This stands 1.8 metres high. There is no surviving evidence of other standing stones in the area and it is probable that the mound originally extended a further 9 metres to the location of the stone where a facade of standing stones would have stood." The NMR record can be accessed online at http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=332607. [MN 10/08/2010]
Edward Condor was director of some excavations at Lyneham barrow at the invitation of Lord Moreton. He gave an account of these excavations to the Society of Antiquaries in 1895. They were published in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries vol. 15 (1893-1895) pp. 404-410. (copy in the Related Documents File) [CB 5/11/2009]
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