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Project Name:Burial Mounds Neolithic To Viking
Field Researcher:
Faculty: Faculty of History, Philosophy and Spirituality
Start Date: (3 /December / 2006)
End Date (Provisional): (?? / ?? / ??)
Assisting Sub-editor: (to be allocated)


Project Description
A description of types of burial mounnds Neolithic To Viking Periods.

To describe and list the various styles of burial mounds in the British Isles. Construction methods and who built them and when, their location and distribution. The forms of mounds such as cairns, chamber tombes and barrows and the types Bowl, Bell, Disc, Saucer, Pond and Viking ship burials. The generic terms such as Tumulus and kurgans.


Completed entries
A17974722 Barrow Burials an Overview TO BE EDITED
A18021197 Pond and Saucer Barrows TO BE EDITED
A18066044 Bell Barrows TO BE EDITED

Entries in progress
Bowl Barrows
Disc And Saucer Barrows
Viking Ship Burials

Also trying to locate what happened here for you Bob

Editorial Note: This conversation has been moved from 'Faculty of History, Philosophy and Spirituality' to 'The h2g2 University Project Link Page : British Burial Barrows: A History'.

Duplicate thread – see: F87274?thread=3725560

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