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The Archaeology of People: Dimensions of Neolithic Life, Whittle

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<< Other Photo Pages >> Stragglethorpe Bronze Age ring ditch - Round Barrow(s) in England in Nottinghamshire

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Stragglethorpe Bronze Age ring ditch
Country: England County: Nottinghamshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Newark  Nearest Village: Stragglethorpe
Map Ref: SK6720037057
Latitude: 52.926727N  Longitude: 1.001818W
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
Destroyed Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
1 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
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no data Accuracy:
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
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Stragglethorpe Bronze Age ring ditch
Stragglethorpe Bronze Age ring ditch submitted by Flickr : Bronze Age ring ditch - A46 A46 Newark to Widmerpool scheme, Nottinghamshire: Ring Ditch - Bronze Age burial monument at Stragglethorpe. [Image courtesy of Balfour Beatty] Image copyright: We have moved! Please visit /highwaysengland, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The most important Neolithic site on the route of the A46 dual carriageway was at Stragglethorpe where a ring-ditch, just over 20 metres in diameter, was dug around 2400 BC, towards the end of the Neolithic period. The ditch probably provided soil for a mound to cover a burial in the centre, but any mound had been ploughed away over the centuries and the grave had been robbed of its contents.

It is likely that the monument was erected to mark the burial place of an important local person. Within the upper fill of the ring-ditch were the remains of seven more burials, five adults and two infants, all probably buried around 2000 BC during the Early Bronze Age. As far as we can tell all the adults were female. They may represent members of an extended family group or small community. One of the burials included a pot – a highly decorated Beaker that may
have been used as a drinking vessel.

It was made of local clay with the rim decorated with cord impressions and the body covered with patterns perhaps created using a flint tool

Source: Archaeology and the A46 - Highways Agency (PDF) and see also A46 Nottinghamshire [Hardback]

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Stragglethorpe Bronze Age ring ditch
Stragglethorpe Bronze Age ring ditch submitted by Flickr : Beaker Pottery A46 Newark to Widmerpool dualling scheme, Nottinghamshire: Beaker Pottery uneathered near the A46. [Image courtesy of Balfour Beatty] Image copyright: We have moved! Please visit /highwaysengland, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stragglethorpe Bronze Age ring ditch
Stragglethorpe Bronze Age ring ditch submitted by Flickr : Bronze Age skeleton found near the A46 A46 Newark to Widmerpool: Bronze Age skeleton found at Stragglethorpe, during archaeological work on the Highways Agency scheme. [Image courtesy of Courtesy of Balfour Beatty] Image copyright: We have moved! Please visit /highwaysengland, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stragglethorpe Bronze Age ring ditch
Stragglethorpe Bronze Age ring ditch submitted by Flickr : Star findings along A46 - flint pieces dating back to 11,000 BC found A46 Newark to Widmerpool scheme, Nottinghamshire: Phil Harding, star of 'Time Team' with some of the larger flint pieces from cutting tools using by our ancestors around 11,000 BC. These were unearthed by archaeologists working on the Highways Agency scheme. [Image used with permission from Cotswold and Wessex Archaeology] Imag... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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