Bronze Age ('Beaker period') round barrow ('Barrow 3'), burial and finds assemblage, Mucking (EHER 13839)

A flexed inhumation burial which had a complete corded beaker and 11 barbed and tanged arrowheads.

1965-1978. Salvage excavations. The Beaker presence at Mucking comprises: one burial with a silhouette showing flexed knees which had a complete corded beaker and 11 barbed and tanged arrowheads, perhaps from a quiver. The rest of the Beaker pottery seems to represent a domestic assemblage. <1> Site Assessment: Site destroyed by quarrying. See <3> which has a chapter on the Mesolithic to Middle Bronze Age at Mucking. See also <4> - <10> which may contain further information. NRHE summary description, 1302321: An Early Bronze Age inhumation excavated at Mucking during the 1965-78 investigations of the cropmark complex there (see TQ 68 SE 16). The nature of the soil meant that the body survived only as a silhouette, but it appeared to have been buried in a flexed position. With the body was a complete corded Beaker and 11 barbed and tanged flint arrowheads, perhaps representing the former presence of a quiver full of arrows. None of the prehsitoric activity at Mucking has been published in full. See TQ 68 SE 16 and associated monuments for further details of other notable features and additional published sources. <1> <2> NRHE summary description, 1302323: An Early Bronze Age inhumation excavated at Mucking during the 1965-78 investigations of the extensive cropmark complex there (see TQ 68 SE 16). Because of the soil conditions, the skeleton survived only as a silhouette. The body appears to have been interred in a flexed position, and was accompanied by two barbed and tanged flint arrowheads. The body was contained within a planked oak coffin, traces of which survived. A sample of wood from the coffin produced a radiocarbon date of 2195-1695 BC (calibrated). The prehistoric activity at Mucking has yet to be published in full. See TQ 68 SE 16 and associated monument records for details of other Mucking sites and also for additional published sources. <1> <2> NRHE summary description, 1302355: A ring ditch at Mucking, one of seven excavated during the 1965-1978 investigations of the extensive cropmark complex there (see TQ 68 SE 16). None of the prehistoric sites have yet been published in detail, and information on the ring ditches is rather limited. However, it appears that traces of a flexed inhumation were found within the central area. Charcoal from the ditch fill produced a radiocarbon date of 1590-1105 BC (calibrated). Note that this date, in its uncalibrated form, was erroneously published by Priddy (1981) as 3100+/- bc rather than bp. See TQ 68 SE 16 and associated monuments for additional sources and further information on the Mucking excavations. <1> <11> <12> <13> Note: The NRHE record describes this barrow as 'Barrow 3'. The naming convention for this monument appears to have been assigned by the NRHE and may not be consistent with the cited publications. See EHER 13840 and EHER 13841 for more information on the Bronze Age material from the Mucking excavations.