Reconstruction drawing depicting an Early Bronze Age funerary ceremony or ritual at a round barrow in Irthlingborough. A cairn of animal skulls has been created over the inhumation

Date:
1993
Location:
Bronze Age Barrow, Irthlingborough, East Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire
Reference:
IC035/018
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

The illustration is reproduced as figure 120 on page 129 of the 1993 English Heritage Book of Bronze Age Britain by Michael Parker Pearson.

When excavated the barrow at Irthlingborough was found to have at least 184 cattle skulls as well as an auroch skull.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC035 Bronze Age Britain; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction And Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Schofield, Miranda

Keywords

Early Bronze Age Round Barrow