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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: White Caps BarrowCountry: England County: Kent Type: Round Barrow(s)
Map Ref: TR30034766
Latitude: 51.181864N Longitude: 1.289992E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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From Exploring Kent's Past:
"A subcircular earthwork consisting of a primary segmented ring-ditch and two later continuous concentrically arranged ring-ditches. The earthwork appeared to have developed in four distinct phases (three involving structural modifications, one comprising a phase of structural disintegration) and contained a minimum of eleven human burials including six in situ crouched inhumations and three cremations, one of which was urned. Five of the crouched inhumations were of juveniles. The apparently protracted first use of a barrow as a burial place exclusively for children is extremely rare
An intact and insitu cremation vessel was recovered as were the sherds of an almost complete small ceramic cup The fragments of the cup had been deliberately re-buried along with a child's skull following the reuse of the grave for a later inhumation..
Substantial quantities of residual purposely struck flints and finished implements were recovered from the secondary and upper ring-ditch fills, as were moderate quantities of similarly residual ceramic sherds and animal bones, mostly of cattle.
The barrow was cut by a Late Iron Age straight flat bottomed ditch (TR 34 NW 242) on a northeast-southwest alignment. It may suggest that the barrow still represented a conspicuous landmark when the ditch was cut."
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