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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hazleton North - Chambered Tomb in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by bec-zog on Thursday, 02 March 2023  Page Views: 19974

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hazleton North Alternative Name: Hazleton II
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Cheltenham  Nearest Village: Salperton
Map Ref: SP073189  Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.868630N  Longitude: 1.895383W
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1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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Hazleton North
Hazleton North submitted by Andy B : The reconstructed chamber of Hazleton North in the Corinium museum. See more photos on our page for the museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This long barrow (or chambered cairn) was subject to total excavation under Dr Saville - see the comments below to download his report. The barrow was methodically examined layer by layer, to gain information on how it and other Cotswold long barrows were constructed and used and to gain information about the people who built and utilised it. The main chamber (pictured left) is now in the Corinium Museum.

Originally located at SP073188, near Hazleton.

Below in the comments:
* Ancient DNA reveals the world’s oldest family tree from this Cotswolds megalithic tomb
* Archaeology of the Ear - Listening to Historic Places, including soundscapes from Hazleton North long barrow by Chris Cundy and Adam Horovitz

Note: BBC Radio 4 In Our Time: Melvyn Bragg and guests Vicki Cummings, Julian Thomas and Susan Greaney, all luminaries in the field discuss megaliths, including recent DNA and Strontium results from Hazleton North. Listen now and if you heard the version on the radio they have added an extra 10 minutes at the end on transporting stones, fighting, and how people might have been selected for burial
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Hazleton North
Hazleton North submitted by bec-zog : Hazleton Long Barrows Archeological dig ~1981. Originaly located @ SP 073188, near Hazleton Cheltenham Subject to a total excavation under Dr Saville . The barrow was methodically examined layer by layer, to gain in formation on how it and other Cotswold long barrows were constructed and used and to gain information about the people who built and utilised it. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hazleton North
Hazleton North submitted by bec-zog : Hazleton Long Barrows Archeological dig ~1981. Originaly located @ SP073,188, near Hazleton Cheltenham Subject to a total excavation under Dr Saville . The barrow was methodically examined layer by layer, to gain in formation on how it and other Cotswold long barrows were constructed and used and to gain information about the people who built and utilised it. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hazleton North
Hazleton North submitted by AngieLake : Artist's interpretation of how the long barrow may have appeared when it was in use. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hazleton North
Hazleton North submitted by AngieLake : Another angle on the reconstructed chamber of Hazleton. (Cirencester Museum). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hazleton North
Hazleton North submitted by AngieLake : The reconstructed chamber of Hazleton long barrow in Cirencester Museum.

Hazleton North
Hazleton North submitted by AngieLake : The first display in Cirencester Museum is this reconstructed chamber of Hazleton long barrow and its associated info. I'm unsure which of the two it is, but the site page says this one was thoroughly excavated.

Hazleton North
Hazleton North submitted by Andy B : Reconstruction drawings showing the different ways Neolithic communities closed their burial sites, at Ascott-under-Wychwood, the chamber was walled up; at Hazleton offerings were made; at Fussell's Lodge the wooden mortuary chamber was burnt and a large barrow constructed; and in West Kennet, people simply stopped placing corpses in the tomb. These differences indicate that contemporary Neolithic... (1 comment)

Hazleton North
Hazleton North submitted by thecaptain : Now completely destroyed after the excavations, all that there is to be seen of this ex longbarrow is a very slight raise in the middle of a ploughed field.

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Re: Hazleton North by weldersdog- on Friday, 03 March 2023
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I am still trying to digest the informations provided in this article...
Now knowing about the family tree i will have a different view whenever i will come across a similar site.
Thanks to every contributer of the article and the scientist!
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BBC Radio 4 In Our Time: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss megaliths by Andy B on Thursday, 02 March 2023
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BBC Radio 4 In Our Time: Melvyn Bragg and guests Vicki Cummings, Julian Thomas and Susan Greaney, all luminaries in the field discuss megaliths, including recent DNA and Strontium results from Hazleton North.

Listen now and if you heard the version on the radio they have added an extra 10 minutes at the end on transporting stones, fighting, and how people might have been selected for burial

Plus The Old Stones is in the Reading list and we are in the Related Links!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jkzg
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Archaeology of the Ear - Listening to Historic Places by Andy B on Thursday, 07 July 2022
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Adam Horovitz and Chris Cundy are collectively known as Longstone. named 25 years ago after the Minchinhampton Longstone. They are based in Cheltenham and create experimental, electronic music.

https://longstone.bandcamp.com/

They have been working with Corinium Museum on a project called Archaeology of the Ear - Listening to Historic Places

A series of poems and soundscapes exploring historic places and artefacts that have sonorous and musical stories to tell.

Details from this page
https://coriniummuseum.org/discover/archaeology-of-the-ear/

One being Earth-bound, Wind-bound at Hazleton North long barrow by Adam Horovitz - a soundscape from Hazleton North

https://coriniummuseum.org/discover/archaeology-of-the-ear/a-soundscape-from-hazleton-north/

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https://twitter.com/hashtag/archaeologyoftheear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRNPLY4MDtY&feature=emb_title

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World’s oldest family tree revealed in 5,700-year-old Cotswolds tomb by Upozi on Wednesday, 22 December 2021
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DNA analysis of bodies in Hazleton North long cairn finds five generations of an extended family Hazleton North long cairn artist's impression

An analysis of DNA from a 5,700-year-old tomb has revealed the world’s oldest family tree, shedding “extraordinary” light on the importance of family and descent among people who were some of Britain’s first farmers.

A research team has examined the bones and teeth of 35 people in one of Britain’s best preserved neolithic tombs, near the village of Hazleton in the Cotswolds. The results, said Dr Chris Fowler of Newcastle University, are nothing short of “astounding”.

The researchers have discovered that 27 were biological relatives from five continuous generations of a single extended family. The majority were descended from four women who all had children with the same man.

“It tells us that descent was important,” said Fowler. “When they were building these tombs and deciding who to include in them, certainly in this case, they were selecting people who were close relatives of the people who were first buried there. They have this close connection to their immediate ancestors and that extends over several generations.

“Family was important and you can see that with the inclusion of some very young children in the tomb as well.”

The tomb, known as the Hazleton North long cairn, is divided into two L-shaped chambered areas and fresh research also shows that the dead were buried according to the women they were descended from. That shows, the study concludes, “that these first-generation women were socially significant in the memories of this community”.

More at https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/22/worlds-oldest-family-tree-costwolds-tomb-hazleton-north-long-cairn-dna
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    Ancient DNA reveals the world’s oldest family tree by Andy B on Wednesday, 22 December 2021
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    Published on: 22 December 2021 Analysis of ancient DNA from one of the best-preserved Neolithic tombs in Britain has revealed that most of the people buried there were from five continuous generations of a single extended family.

    This study gives us an unprecedented insight into kinship in a Neolithic community. The separate chambered areas suggests that the architectural layout of other Neolithic tombs might tell us about how kinship operated in those tombs.

    By analysing DNA extracted from the bones and teeth of 35 individuals entombed at Hazleton North long cairn in the Cotswolds-Severn region, the research team was able to detect that 27 of them were close biological relatives. The group lived approximately 5700 years ago – around 3700-3600 BC - around 100 years after farming had been introduced to Britain.

    Published in Nature, it is the first study to reveal in such detail how prehistoric families were structured, and the international team of archaeologists and geneticists say that the results provide new insights into kinship and burial practices in Neolithic times.

    The research team – which included archaeologists from Newcastle University and geneticists from the University of the Basque Country, University of Vienna and Harvard University - show that most of those buried in the tomb were descended from four women who had all had children with the same man.

    The cairn at Hazleton North included two L-shaped chambered areas which were located north and south of the main ‘spine’ of the linear structure. After they had died, individuals were buried inside these two chambered areas and the research findings indicate that men were generally buried with their father and brothers, suggesting that descent was patrilineal with later generations buried at the tomb connected to the first generation entirely through male relatives.

    While two of the daughters of the lineage who died in childhood were buried in the tomb, the complete absence of adult daughters suggests that their remains were placed either in the tombs of male partners with whom they had children, or elsewhere.

    Although the right to use the tomb ran through patrilineal ties, the choice of whether individuals were buried in the north or south chambered area initially depended on the first-generation woman from whom they were descended, suggesting that these first-generation women were socially significant in the memories of this community.

    Dr Chris Fowler of Newcastle University, the first author and lead archaeologist of the study, said: “This study gives us an unprecedented insight into kinship in a Neolithic community. The tomb at Hazleton North has two separate chambered areas, one accessed via a northern entrance and the other from a southern entrance, and just one extraordinary finding is that initially each of the two halves of the tomb were used to place the remains of the dead from one of two branches of the same family. This is of wider importance because it suggests that the architectural layout of other Neolithic tombs might tell us about how kinship operated at those tombs.”

    There are also indications that ‘stepsons’ were adopted into the lineage, the researchers say - males whose mother was buried in the tomb but not their biological father, and whose mother had also had children with a male from the patriline. Additionally, the team found no evidence that another eight individuals were biological relatives of those in the family tree, which might further suggest that biological relatedness was not the only criterion for inclusion. However, three of these were women and it is possible that they could have had a partner in the tomb but either did not have any children or had daughters who reached adulthood and left the community so are absent from the tomb.

    Iñigo Olalde of the University of the Basque Country and Ikerbasque, the lead geneticist for the study and co-first author, said

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Re: Hazleton North by JohnLindsay on Wednesday, 25 September 2013
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The Saville report calls it a long cairn, just to make sure that finding it in libraries will be harder, and the British Library gives it added entry long cairn too...

what consists cairness is the same sort of thing that consists barrowness I preseum. This one though was most unlike the others of which I have read.
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    Hazleton North: The excavation of a Neolithic long cairn of the Cotswold-Severn group by Andy B on Wednesday, 22 December 2021
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    Hazleton North: The excavation of a Neolithic long cairn of the Cotswold-Severn group
    Saville, A. English Heritage (1990)

    Hazleton North is an Early Neolithic chambered long cairn of the Cotswold-Severn group, which was selected for total excavation between 1979 and 1982 after survey showed continued damage from ploughing. This trapezoidal long cairn is an example of the laterally-chambered type of tomb with two very similar L-shaped chambered areas near its centre, entered from opposite sides of the monument. Particular attention is given to two aspects which make Hazleton North of outstanding importance for the study of Neolithic chambered cairns in Britain: the details of the cairn construction and the burial remains. The account is supported by a full range of specialist studies, including analysis of the artefacts, human and animal bones, plant and molluscan remains, soils, geology, and numerous radiocarbon samples, and is concluded by a discussion of the results of the excavation and its significance for the study of Cotswold-Severn cairns and the earlier Neolithic of the region.

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    Hazleton North: The excavation of a Neolithic long cairn of the Cotswold-Severn group, Saville, A., English Heritage (1990), ISBN: 9781848021617
    https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/eh_monographs_2014/contents.cfm?mono=1089037
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      Re: Hazleton North: The excavation of a Neolithic long cairn of the Cotswold-Severn g by morgannwg on Thursday, 06 January 2022
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      Interesting link. Thank you
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Re: Hazleton North by TheCaptain on Sunday, 14 January 2007
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The total excavation of this longbarrow between 1979 and 1982 found an opposing pair of lateral chambers near to the centre of the mound.
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Re: Hazleton North by TheCaptain on Sunday, 07 January 2007
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Now completely destroyed after the excavations, all that there is to be seen of this ex longbarrow is a very slight raise in the middle of a ploughed field.
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