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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cossington Bronze Age BarrowsCountry: England County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Village: Cossington
Map Ref: SK605129
Latitude: 52.710391N Longitude: 1.105935W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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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 |
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Round barrows were important burial monuments for the Bronze Age communities that built and used them, but what happened to them in later times? Fascinating evidence from three barrows excavated at Cossington gravel quarry in Leicestershire has shown that they were also a focus of activity for later communities, who were attracted to the ancient earthworks to make offerings and bury their dead.
In this talk linked below, ULAS Deputy Director John Thomas describes the results of the excavations and examine why the barrows maintained their local importance centuries after their original use.
Recorded live on 28 July, 2021 for the Council for British Archaeology's Festival of Archaeology.
Objects buried with the 4000 year old Cossington Boy are included alongside a reconstruction of his burial in Charnwood Museum, Loughborough.
Ref: Monument, Memory, and Myth: Use and Re-use of Three Bronze Age Round Barrows at Cossington, Leicestershire (Leicester Archaeology Monographs): v. 14 Paperback – 15 May 2008 by John Thomas
Note: Video Talk: Monument, Memory and Myth: Use and re-use of the Cossington Bronze Age Barrows
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