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The Excavation of a Neolithic Cairn at Street House, Loftus, Cleveland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

B. E. Vyner
B. E. Vyner*
Affiliation:
Cleveland County Archaeology, The Old School, Victoria Road, Middlesbrough, Cleveland
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Abstract

In 1979 Cleveland County Archaeology Section completed fieldwork for a survey of Bronze Age burial mounds in the county. The survey isolated a number of themes for further investigation, including the examination of several of the few remaining barrows near the coast, all of which are threatened with destruction from continued ploughing. One of these mounds was a shallow earthwork surviving in a hedgebank at Street House Farm, Loftus. Excavation in the autumn of 1979 and in the summers of 1980 and 1981 revealed a multiphase neolithic cairn which incorporated a burnt timber façade and mortuary structure. The cairn had been badly damaged by ploughing, but the evidence for the construction and use of the monument survived to a considerable extent. The neolithic monument had been overlain by a Bronze Age round barrow, of which only a part had survived.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , December 1984 , pp. 151 - 195
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1984

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