Description

Summary: 1 flint axe (partially ground) found by the feet of a primary male and female (shaman/metalworker?) inhumation in bowl barrow Upton Lovell G2a, excavated by William Cunnington

Research results

A polished flint axehead found as a grave good in the Early Bronze Age primary double-inhumation from Upton Lovell G2a, a barrow excavated by William Cunnington in 1801. The grave, said to be of a male and female skeleton, contained a range of unusual grave goods now thought to be metal working tools, and this in part led to the suggestion that this was the burial of a 'shaman'.

This object and the other grave goods found with the Upton Lovell G2a primary double-burial have been examined by Tsoraki et al. (in prep.) as part of the Beyond the Three Age System project. The results of this analysis was unfortunately indeterminate.