Laboratory: University of Waikato


BP: 4897 Std: 38

Delta 13C value -20.7 Delta 13C standard deviation 0.2

Sample Material: collagen, bone Sample Material Comment: human, rib from almost completely articulated skeleton of 13-17 year old

Feature Type: burial mound Feature: at back of lateral chamber

Culture: Neolithic Phase: n/a


Site: West Tumb, Gloucestershire Country Subdivision: Gloucestershire Country: United Kingdom


Approved: true Right: public


Literature:

Brickley, Megan and Thomas, Richard, The young woman and her baby or the juvenile and their dog: re-interpreting osteological material from a Neolithic long barrow. Archaeological Journal 161 / 1-10, 2004.

Whittle, Alasdair William Richardson and Healy, Frances Margaret Alton and Bayliss, Alexandra, Gathering time: dating the early Neolithic enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland (2011).

Witts, GB, Description of the long barrow called ‘West Tump’in the Parish of Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society 5, 1881, 201--11.


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