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Lechlade’s buried secrets: Revisiting a long-lived ritual landscape in Gloucestershire
In 2017, excavations revealed an unusual Bronze Age burial alongside other signs of ceremonial activity spanning thousands of years. With some of the grave goods now on display, CA returns to the story of the Lechlade ‘chieftain’.
This spring, a small group of artefacts was added to the prehistory gallery at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester. They are all fairly typical of the material culture of the Early Bronze Age – but the 4,000-year-old story that they tell is more unusual. The objects had been discovered some 19km (12 miles) to the east, during archaeological investigations in the Cotswold town of Lechlade, in 2017. Foundations Archaeology had been commissioned to carry out an excavation ahead of the construction of a new community hall and skatepark, and the site was known to be home to a circular cropmark that was suspected to represent the ploughed-out remains of a Bronze Age burial mound. This proved to b
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