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Metalworker or shaman: Early Bronze Age Upton Lovell G2a burial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Colin A. Shell
Colin A. Shell*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England. cas4@cam.ac.uk
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The Early Bronze Age barrow, Upton Lovell GZa,on Upton Lovell Down near the south westernedge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, was one ofthe first to be investigated by William Cunnington(Cunnington 1806). His excavation in May 1802revealed an extended primary inhumation of astout male, accompanied near the feet by a largenumber of perforated bone points, three flint axesand a number of stones. These included fragmentsof a broken stone battle axe. At the chest was acomplete stone battle axe and a circular stone withbevelled edges and polished surface. Also foundwere a jet or lignite ring and biconicai beads, anda small bronze awl. The grave was listed by Piggott(1938: grave 82) as one of the burials defining hisWessex Culture.

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Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 284 , June 2000 , pp. 271 - 272
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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