Stone box from the pool farm
The slab of the Pool Farm stone box was found in West Harptree in the Mendip Hills , north of Priddy, near Wells in Somerset , England . The plate with small bowls ( English cup marks ) and scratches on the soles of the foot formed one side of a stone box from the Bronze Age , which was covered with a round mound about 4000 years ago and in which there were human cremations of at least two people, an adult between the ages of 30 and 40 years and a child between the ages of three and eight years. The box was registered as Pastscape Monument No. 197638.
A note from the 1930s describes a hill about 30 meters in diameter and a little over a meter high. The stone box with capstone and paved floor, located 0.6 m east of the middle of the hill, measured 1.65 × 1.35 m and was 0.75 m high. The mound was removed in 1931. The box was left in place and a replica of the removed plate was added.
In 1956 it was found that the southwest plate of the box, located in the City Museum in Bristol on Queen's Road, had six carved soles of the foot, in recessed relief, and nine or ten bowls. In grave contexts, scratches on the soles of the feet are rare. Other examples in England are the Calderstones near Liverpool (on stones of a chamber tomb) and Harbottle Peels near Alwinton in Northumberland (on stones of a stone box).
Aveline's Hole and the Priddy Circles are nearby .
See also
Web links
- J. Coles, H. Gestsdottir, S. Minnitt: A Bronze Age Decorated Cist from Pool Farm, West Harptree: New Analyzes In: Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 144, 2000.
- Leslie V. Grinsell: A Decorated Cist-Slab from Mendip In. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, volume 23, 1957.
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