Normanton Down
Normanton Down is a 0.5 km² hill burial ground from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages . It is just south of the A303 (road) one kilometer south of Stonehenge in Wiltshire , England .
The Normanton Down group is considered one of the most important burial grounds in the country along with the Winterbourne Stoke group . The field consists of three long hills, an enclosure and 38 round hills ( English barrows ) of different shapes. 25 of them are bowl barrows, seven are disc barrows, five are bell barrows (one of which is a double barrow) and one is a sauce barrow. One of the hills of Normanton Down is the Bush Barrow , excavated in 1808 by Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758-1838) and William Cunnington (1754-1810) , a burial mound of the Bronze Age Wessex culture of about 15.0 m in diameter and about 2.5 m height at which, among other things, the "Bush Barrow diamond" ( English Lozenge ) was found. They long in a man's grave from the period 1900–1700 BC. BC, in which three daggers and a spearhead made of bronze , the remainder of a shield , a belt hook, bone tools , a club head made of stone and another gold lozenge were found as additional additions . In 1882, the Clandon Barrow diamond , a similar golden diamond , was found near Maiden Castle .
Many of the other burial mounds also contained burial objects including pendants and beads made of amber , gold and slate , daggers, vessels and needles made of bronze, a perforated swan bone that could be a flute, and rings made of brown coal.
literature
- Paul Ashbee: The bronze age round barrow in Britain (London, Phoenix House 1960).
- Colin A. Shell, Paul Robinson: The recent reconstruction of the Bush Barrow lozenge plate. ANTIQUITY 62, 1988, pp. 48-60.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 15.7 " N , 1 ° 49 ′ 58.4" W.