Ongenþeow's barrow, right, has not been excavated.

When Ohthere and his actions are concerned, he is referred to as Ongenþeow's offspring together with his brother Onela.

During the fight Wulf was severely wounded, but Eofor slew Ongenþeow and carried Ongenþeow's arms to Hygelac.

Obviously taking a " wood corner " to be a piece of a chair or something, she hurriedly assumes William has every right to dump his barrow into the living room.

Dolmens were usually covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow, though in many cases that covering has weathered away, leaving only the stone " skeleton " of the burial mound intact.

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There is speculation that the mound has an older history, and may have originally been a barrow.

Many barrows lie over graves and are monuments to the deceased, but as the barrow at Maiden Castle did not cover any burials, it has been suggested that it was a boundary marker, which would explain the limited human activity on the hilltop for the 500 years after the bank barrow's construction.

Excavations show Dinnington to have been inhabited since at least Neolithic times, and it has been suggested that the settlement takes its name from a local barrow, though a more traditional interpretation of " Dinnington " would be " Dunn's Farmstead ", or " Town of Dunns People ".

The area around Darwen has been inhabited since the early Bronze Age, and the remains of a barrow from approximately 2000 BC have been partially restored at the Ashleigh Barrow in Whitehall.

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The only archaeology of this period comes in the form of an Iron-Age field system and pit alignment which has been recorded as cropmarks on aerial photographs about north-east of the village in the area to the south and east of the Bronze-Age barrow cemetery mentioned above, near Echills.

Another Bronze-Age round barrow has been identified from circular cropmarks on A. P.

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In those long barrows that do contain appreciable quantities of human remains, their concentration in just one small part of the overall structure has led some to argue that the long barrow was not merely a repository for the dead but also a general monument acting as a territorial marker, a place of religious offering and a community centre.

Most prominently, the eastern side has largely collapsed, with the stones that once helped to hold up the side of the barrow having fallen to the bottom of the slope.

The bell barrow Milton Lilbourne 2 in Wiltshire has no burial associated with it.

The mound is roughly oval, but indented on the north-eastern side, making it somewhat kidney-shaped. Neolithic Barrow on Whiteleaf Hill, Monks Risborough, Bucks The barrow held only one burial and radio-carbon dating has shown that the death, the burial and the building of the mound probably all took place within the period 3, 750-3, 100 B. C., but at different times within that period.

The parish of Great Wilbraham has been occupied for thousands of years ; a Neolithic camp was excavated in the west of the parish in 1976, and a Bronze Age barrow, where up to eight burials were discovered in 1852, lies alongside the Fleam Dyke in the southern corner of the parish.

There is no evidence of a covering barrow and it has been suggested that these much smaller stones were moved from the neighbouring field by local farmers.

A large barrow once covered the chamber, it has only survived for about a quarter of the perimeter but suggests a total width of around 20m.

As only the megalithic portion of the barrow was fenced in by the railings, the long earth barrow has been continually ploughed away since, with uncovered stones dumped in woodland nearby by the farmer and the mound itself, still visible in the mid-twentieth century, now gone.

This work has indicated that the now ploughed-away barrow was as high as 5m and had a diameter of more than 40m.

The southern avenue is 263. 5 metres long and has the remains of a barrow in the middle.

Early human occupation of the area around Penkridge has been confirmed by the presence of a Bronze or Iron Age barrow at nearby Rowley Hill.

A cist may have been associated with other monuments, perhaps under a cairn or long barrow.

This era saw the start of barrow building for the dead, and settlements have been found at Rødkilde.

They demonstrated that the site had been built in two different phases, a timber chambered oval barrow built around 3700 BC and the second stone chambered long barrow in around 3400 BC.

The site seems to have been in use until into the Bronze Age, which was when the outer bank was reconstructed so that the barrow could be erected.

The larger barrow is in diameter and high, although a slight depression in the top, suggests that it may have been partially excavated or robbed.

The statue was found north of the barrow, but is supposed to have been originally placed on the top.

The most interesting archaeological site in Handsacre itself belongs to the Bronze-Age period and lies north of the A513 Kings Bromley Lane about to north-east of the village where no less than six bronze-age round barrows have been recorded as circular cropmarks on aerial photographs ( centred on SK 103169 ); this clustering of ancient burial mounds is known as a ' barrow cemetery '.

's on the opposite bank of the River Trent about north of the Handsacre barrow cemetery in the neighbouring parish of Hamstall Ridware ( SK 103175 ), and a further three ring ditches, very likely representing more of these burial mounds have been located on A. P.

Despite excavations, no grave goods or human remains have been found associated with the barrow.

A site in Henryton uncovered a Neolith barrow containing stone axes ( c. 1500 BC ) and a Bronze Age cairn dating from about 1000 BC ( the cairn itself contains cists which are thought to be have been made by bronze weapons or tools ).

Traditionally, these structures have been interpreted as ' houses ' for the dead and that barrow builders may have continued this old idea in the Neolithic and later periods.

Nonetheless, there are five known examples of stone tombs having been built in this southern region during the Neolithic, termed the " Medway megaliths " because of their proximity to the River Medway, and the Coldrum long barrow is the best surviving example among them.

When the barrow itself was excavated in 1910, the remains of twenty two people were found in the central chamber, including the skull of one which had been placed on a raised shelf.

On his return to England he excavated a long barrow on Wexcombe Down with Earnest Hooton.

The barrow was first excavated in either 1798 or 1799 by the Reverend

the barrow was excavated, Mortimer considered it possible that there were

On Whiteleaf Hill, which extends above the hamlet of Whiteleaf to the top of the scarp at, is an oval Neolithic barrow ( National Grid SP 822040 ), which was first excavated by Sir Lindsay Scott between 1934 and 1939, when the work was interrupted by the Second World War and the excavator died before he had had an opportunity to publish more than interim notes on his findings.

The whole monument was covered by an earth barrow with material excavated from two flanking ditches and measured around 20m in length.

The large trapezoidal earth barrow erected over it was revetted with a stone kerb and its material was again excavated from two large flanking ditches.

The statue was found in Hirschlanden ( now Ditzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany ) in 1963 when a low barrow was excavated.

Representation of a barrow excavated by quadrant

The barrow was often far larger than the original mortuary enclosure and used material excavated from ditches dug along the long sides of the enclosure.

There is a neolithic oval barrow near the top of Whiteleaf Hill, Monks Risborough, Buckinghamshire ( National Grid: SP 822040 ), which was first excavated by Sir Lindsay Scott between 1934 and 1939 and re-excavated from 2002 to 2006 by Oxford Archaeology ( assisted by the Princes Risborough Countryside Group ).

There are about 15 excavated Eastern Latgalian barrow cemeteries, but usually only a small number of barrows were investigated.

Archaeological evaluation trenching in 1989 found no clear evidence of any surrounding quarry ditch which would normally have been excavated to provide material for a covering barrow.

When the site was excavated in summer 1957 by its owner, Mr E. Boyle, stratified evidence of Mesolithic settlement was found directly beneath the barrow.

It was excavated between 1964 and 1966 by Paul Ashbee who found no evidence of burials beneath the barrow and conjectured that it was a kind of cenotaph.

Rillaton barrow was excavated in 1837 and found to contain a centrally-placed inhumation beneath the 25m wide barrow.

Chalk excavated from the ditch had been used to cover the earth core of the barrow.

A Bronze Age barrow was located on the hill, and excavated in 1930 before being destroyed by quarrying.

The Benty Grange helmet is an archaeological artefact excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1848 from an Anglo-Saxon tumulus ( or barrow ) at the Benty Grange Farm in the civil parish of Monyash in the English county of Derbyshire.

The barrow was excavated in 1921, and an east-western aligned coffin was found.