A barrow full of cattle skulls. (cattle burial mound in Northamptonshire, England) From: Antiquity | Date: March 1, 1993| Author: Davis, Simon; Payne, Sebastian | COPYRIGHT 1993 Antiquity Publications, Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

An unusual assemblage of at least 185 cattle skulls, mandibles, shoulder blades and pelves were found together with the partly disarticulated skeleton of an adult man in a Beaker period round barrow in Northamptonshire, England. The assemblage was suggested to be a symbol of the social status of the buried man. It also supported earlier suggestions that cattle played an important role in the economic as well as the social aspect of the British Neolithic and Bronze Age period.

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