Dr. Catherine Frieman in a field in Cornwall with survey equipment. ANU
Posted on 04/02/2018 2:47:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An Archaeologist at The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a prehistoric Bronze-Age barrow, or burial mound, on a hill in Cornwall and is about to start excavating the untouched site which overlooks the English Channel. The site dates back to around 2,000 BC and was discovered by chance when ANU Archaeologist Dr Catherine Frieman, who was conducting geophysical surveys of a known site outside the village of Looe in Cornwall, was approached by a farmer about a possible site in a neighbouring field... Dr Frieman said ancient barrows in the UK are usually always burial sites, although in Cornwall they can vary and might not contain human remains... Dr Frieman's work has overturned the accepted belief that Cornish barrows don't have ditches. She said of the surveys involving her team, 90 per cent of barrows have ditches... Dr Frieman has arrived in Cornwall and is assembling her team. They will start excavation work on Easter Saturday and have 14 days to complete the dig... Dr Frieman said the things put into burials was usually the most interesting. Stone tools like flint knives and ground stone axes and pottery have been recovered from nearby Cornish Barrows, but gold objects and ornaments of exotic material were also occasionally deposited in them. "We think these coastal waters were really important for the movement of metals in the Bronze Age. Tin is a famous Cornish resource and Cornish Tin is really important to the western European Bronze Age," she said.
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Dr. Catherine Frieman in a field in Cornwall with survey equipment. ANU
Geophysical scan of area surveyed showing ditch and area to be excavated. ANU
Interpretation of site surveyed with key to area within the site. ANU
Grave robbers....
No, just barrowing it for a while..............
Sow wee ..Thar’s gold in them there Cornwall hills!
Beware the Barrow-wights and other monsters that live in barrows.
And some of those Barrows may be doorways to worlds best left alone.
1 : mountain, mound —used only in the names of hills in England
2 : a large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead : tumulus Origin and Etymology of barrow
Middle English bergh, from Old English beorg; akin to Old High German berg mountain, Sanskrit bṛhant high"
Learn sumpthin' every day....
Watch out for the Barrow Wights.
Where is Tom Bombadil, just in case?
I see what you did there! lol
You beat me to it!!
The air looks clean.
Interesting. Thanks, SunkenCiv!
It was all fine until either Samwise or Frodo picked up the gold, I can’t remember.
Kin ah barrow sum salt?
Very pun-y!
In Texas they call the road ditch a borrow or barrow pit, or a bar ditch.
Figure it must be somehow derived from the English “beorg” or “bearwe”, which a person could research.
Then again he could just go fishing.
I’m scared of barrow wights. Otherwise I’d want to go there.
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