More information : ST 79696305 - An oval-shaped bowl barrow, known as
Jug's Grave. It is 27 by 21 paces and 4 feet high. There are
slight indications of a ditch on the south and west.
Excavations by G. Underwood, 1946/7, revealed a primary
interment of two skeletons in a stone cist accompanied by four
EBA flint arrowheads, probable Beaker sherds, a gold 'sun disc'
ornament and a fragment of bone ring.
Four secondary inhumation-burials were found in the north part
of the mound and other finds included a few flint flakes and
scrapers and part of an hour-glass perforated stone mace.
Three banks of the field system (ST 86 SW 1) impinge on the mound.
See illustration card.
Jug's Grave at ST 79686305, is a cairn 1.4 metres high,
extensively mutilated in the centre and N.W. where large
quantities of stone have been removed. No indications of the
ditch could be seen.
S.E. of Jug's Grave at approximately ST.79796298, are two
smaller cairns each 0.5 metres high. They may be field clearance
heaps, but this seems unlikely as in the surrounding field
system (ST 86 SW 1) the boundary banks are composed of stone and
this would seem the obvious place to dispose of any surplus stone,
nor are any other heaps of stone visible in the area. They may
therefore be burial cairns. Both contain depressions in their
centres where stone has been removed.
Sherds of a Bell Beaker from Jug's Grave are in Bristol Museum,
Acc. No. F. 3594, and the 'sun-disc' is in the posession of
Capt. Whitehead, Inwoods, Farleigh Wick.
Surveyed at 1/2500
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