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Figure 5.10 (a) A plan of the tripleditched
barrow at Irthlingborough,
Raunds, Northamptonshire. Under
the stone cairn was a central burial
and the remains of a wooden
structure. There was a second
inhumation to the north-east and five
cremation pits to the south (D was a
Collared Urn containing the ashes of
an adult and a teenager along with a
horn-hilted bronze dagger). (b) The
crouched adult male skeleton in the
central burial was accompanied by a
group of grave goods below his feet.
These comprised a long-necked
beaker, three bone spatulae, five
conical jet buttons, an unused flint
dagger, a flint arrowhead or point,
nine unused flint flakes, an amber
ring, two ‘sponge-finger’ stones (one
of chalk and one of Langdale rock), a
reused stone wristguard and a boar’s
tusk, (c) The crouched skeleton of an
adult, probably male, north-east of
the central grave. The only grave
good was a bone needle, placed above
the head.
Source. English Heritage