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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Low Grounds Farm
Country: England County: Buckinghamshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Marlow  Nearest Village: Harleyford
Map Ref: SU834849
Latitude: 51.556829N  Longitude: 0.798404W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Barrow Cemetery in Buckinghamshire. The site was once several islands and is a late Neolithic to Bronze Age settlement (3000 - 800 BC) known to include a mortuary enclosure and a barrow cemetery.

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Note: Amazing Bronze Age burial contained skeletons of two children , see comment
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SU8384 : Lower Grounds Farm by Andrew Smith
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Re: Low Grounds Farm by NickyD on Monday, 09 November 2015
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http://www.archaeologyinmarlow.org.uk/2014/11/how-old-is-marlow/
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Re: Excavation underway to find more about Thames Valley ancestors by eileenlocke on Sunday, 12 July 2015
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this is very interesting I used to live in cookham im interested in the Saxons anything to do with the Saxons and barrows round barrows or long etc
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Amazing Bronze Age burial contained skeletons of two children by bat400 on Thursday, 12 March 2015
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Archaeologists study hundreds of bone fragments from Bronze Age children aged between 10 and 12

The skeletons of two pre-pubescent children have been discovered by archaeologists during an “amazing” dig at the back of an antiques shop which has also revealed pottery suggesting their bones could come from a Bronze Age burial.

The bodies, whose teeth pinpointed their owners’ ages to between ten and 12, contained 250 bones and fragments. Experts in Marlow say the pit they were found in, which was originally opened up in March 2013, included a burial mound disturbed during the 12th century.

“Local historians will know that the earliest recording of the town of Marlow dates from 1015AD, where it is referred to as Merelafan in the Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici,” says John Laker, of Archaeology in Marlow, who collaborated with Museum of London Archaeology Northampton on the 200 square metre excavation.

“Among the remains was a piece of Bronze Age beaker pottery which was probably from a pot buried with the bones, as well as medieval finds from the 12th-14th centuries.

“The discovery of Bronze Age pottery raises the possibility that the bones might be from a Bronze Age burial, and likely a barrow or burial mound.

“Bone samples from the two identified individuals were sent to the USA for radiocarbon dating. The skeletons were found to date from between 2140 and 1950 BC, making them early Bronze Age in date.”

An aerial survey around the nearby Low Grounds Farm cemetery identified the site as a possible island.

“The burials would have been separated from the farm by a section of the Thames,” explains Laker.

“As this cemetery has been dated by form only, it is unknown whether the two sites were active at the same time.

“It looks like people lived in Marlow well before Anglo-Saxon times and that Marlow was a des-res around 4,500 years ago.”

One of the pottery pieces, weighing 12g, is decorated with bands of multiple horizontal lines of comb impressions, flanking a single surviving 10mm-wide zone with a saw-tooth pattern formed from comb impressions.

Archaeologists have compiled a 46-page report on the discoveries.



Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more see the source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology.
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Excavation underway to find more about Thames Valley ancestors by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 July 2006
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AN excavation on the town's earliest known settlement began this week as the Marlow Archaeological Society (MAS) attempted to find out more about our ancestors in the Thames Valley.

The dig began on Tuesday in Low Grounds Farm in the Harleyford Estate where Marlow's first ever residents lived at a time when the rest of the town was just a lake.

Pam Knight, fieldwork secretary, said: "The first few days went brilliantly. We have been taking off the top layer of three different areas (trenches) in different spots the most interesting one will be expanded to a minimum of 20 metres by 20 metres so it's going to be a really big dig. It has already showed up what appears to be the remains of pits which suggests people were there."

The site was once several islands and is a late Neolithic to Bronze Age settlement (3000 - 800 BC) known to include a mortuary enclosure and a barrow cemetery.
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The dig will be professionally supervised by Oxford Archaeology and is the second half of a two-part dig which began in Cookham last year.

It is being funded by a £22,589 Local Heritage Initiative (LHI) grant and its findings will be included in the English Heritage Sites and Monuments Record.

People who are keen to see what kind of treasures are being unearthed at Low Grounds are encouraged to come along to the dig's open day on Sunday (July 16) from 10am until 4pm.

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