Oval Barrow

The Oval Barrow is a prehistoric grave mounds from the Neolithic period and type of the early Bronze Age, which is found mainly in East Anglia. He possibly represents the transition between the older and the younger Long Barrows Round and Disc Barrows dar. The Erdhügeltyp was built with a large bandwidth ( types AF ) for about 800 years.

One of the oldest oval Barrows is the " Thickthorn Barrow " in Dorset ( 3,200 BC ), one of the youngest of the " Alfriston Barrow " (2360 BC) in East Sussex. The oval hill under the Wayland 's Smithy was built over a long hill. In some places, detached wooden huts appear to have been erected in front of the hill. In the development of the oval Barrows Barrow Hills, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, four phases are emerging.

Oval grave hills are mainly found in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Kent, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire. They usually contain a number of pits with cremation burials and grave goods of the Bell Beaker culture. Often an older cairn was only inflated with a bank of earth. The material required was obtained from the oval ditch that surrounded the hill. This sometimes asymmetrical trench seems to have arisen successively. In the hill -dug wells are vague indication of the removal of old and the introduction of new graves. One of the tumuli shows that burials took place over a longer period, with the pits at 90 degrees apart were applied to their predecessors.

Whiteleaf Hill

The Barrow near the top of the Whiteleaf Hill, Monks Risborough at, in Buckinghamshire is pressed on one long side and has a kidney-shaped floor plan. It dates from the Neolithic period and was examined in 1934 and 1939 by Lindsay Scott and dug up again between 2002 and 2006. The hill contained a single burial. The C14 - dating shows that the complex end of the 4th millennium BC and was was used. The relics were found between two 1.2 m apart established post. Shards of pottery and animal bones were found in the middle of the hill. They suggest that the occasion of the solemn launching ceremony of the hill held a feast.