Hazleton North
44 radiocarbon dates are available for the now completely eroded hill of Hazleton North (also called Hazleton II or Hazleton Glou's) at Salperton near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire in England .
description
The atypical Cotswold Severn Tomb , excavated between 1979 and 1982, has two chambers and a false door . The angled chambers face each other in the middle of the trapezoidal hill and are accessible from the side of the hill via longer corridors. Hazleton North, one of only three Cotswold Severn Long Barrows that has been almost completely excavated, connects Burn Ground and the Long Barrow of Ascott-under-Wychwood .
Model 1
There are three alternative interpretations of the archaeological data. In the preferred model, the system is a uniform construction that started after a short break, following a waste pile phase and other activities on the site. The deceased were buried in the chambers. After the primary use of the facility, human remains were deposited in the entrances to the chambers. The last one was a very rare body burial. For them, the bones of those previously buried would be pushed away to make room for a male corpse between 30 and 45 years of age. There was a very large core stone under his right elbow and a hammer stone next to his left hand. He was apparently buried with his tools. The preferred model suggests that the cairn was built in the first half of the 37th century BC. Its primary use lasted only two or three generations and is believed to have been as early as 3620 BC. BC ended.
Model 2
The second model only varies in a postulated continuity between the pre-activities and the plant phase.
Model 3
The third model is based on the possibility that the burials of the bones were only deposited in the complex a long time after death. This interpretation assumes a somewhat later date for the construction of the complex, in the middle of the 37th century BC. Near. Any human remains that were not buried as corpses were stored elsewhere for less than a century. But there is no clear evidence that the human remains were not dumped in Hazleton North shortly after death.
See also
literature
- F. Lynch: Megalithic tombs and Long barrows in Britain. Shire archeology, Princes Risborough 1997, ISBN 0-7478-0341-2 .
- John Meadows, Alistair Barclay, Alex Bayliss: A Short Passage of Time: the Dating of the Hazleton Long Cairn Revisited. In: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Volume 17, 2007, pp. 45-64, doi : 10.1017 / S0959774307000169
- Alan Saville: Hazleton North: The excavation of a Neolithic long cairn of the Cotswold-Severn group. English Heritage, London 1990, ISBN 978-1-848-02161-7 ( digitized ).
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 '7.4 " N , 1 ° 53" 44.4 " W.