| A Prehistoric Burial Mound and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Barrow Clump, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire: English Heritage and Operation Nightingale Excavation Contributor(s): Andrews, Phil (Author), Last, Jonathan (Author), Osgood, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1911137123 ISBN-13: 9781911137122 Publisher: Wessex Archaeology OUR PRICE: $35.15 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Series: Wessex Archaeology Monograph |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 8.1" W x 11.7" (3.35 lbs) 284 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Barrow Clump, on the east side of the Avon valley, lies in the center of the Salisbury Plain Military Training Area. It is the site of a large, partly extant Early Bronze Age burial mound which incorporates an earlier Beaker funerary monument, seals a Neolithic land surface, and was the focus of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, most of the 70 graves dating to the 6th century AD. Excavations in 2003-4 were carried out largely in response to the damage being caused to this and other prehistoric monuments by badgers. The subsequent work in 2012-14 was made possible by the participation of Operation Nightingale (Exercise Beowulf), an innovative military initiative to involve injured service personnel in archaeology to aid their recovery. |