Hetty Pegler’s Tump 6
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Hetty Pegler’s Tump

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Pete G P
Pete G Jan 21, 2005 15:54:40
Replying to Wild Wooder

>has anyone got any views on why there have been so few bodies or parts of bodies found in the >barrows and where the rest are?

WKLB had bones with knife marks on them so maybe they were eaten?
PeteG

M Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Jan 21, 2005 16:54:24
Replying to Pete G

Are there any examples where bodies were buried inside the mound but not in chambers, the chambers being preserved for the chief etc ?

on a slightly different subject but one that ties in...when were the earliest recorded excavations of long barrows carried out? it is just that i found reference to the the Stipple Stones henge on Bodmin Moor today that dates back to QE I.

Some one said earlier that very little bone is found in the chambers...how do we know they were not robbed of anything of "value" prior to modern times?

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