A Prehistoric Burial Mound and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Barrow Clump, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire: English Heritage and Operation Nightingale Excavation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781911137122)

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.

Author: Phil Andrews,Jonathan Last,Richard Osgood
ISBN-10: 1911137123
ISBN-13: 9781911137122
Publisher: Wessex Archaeology
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2020
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.35lbs
Size: 11.70h x 8.10w x 1.00d