Bronze Age Burials
We have already referred to two classes of barrows or burial places. One is described as a long barrow, the other as a round barrow.
It is in this latter class of burial place that the people of the Bronze Age buried their dead.
The round barrows belong to another race of people who existed in Lincolnshire, and are described as Brachy-cephalic or round-headed people.
In these burial places bronze implements have sometimes been found, and occasionally stone implements, showing that the Stone Age overlapped or ran into the Bronze Period.
Incompleteness of the circle in the barrow points to design.
An alphabetical list of the places where in recent times the round barrow existed is as follows:—
- Barrow.
- Bardney.
- Brigg.
- Burgh.
- Burgh-on-Bain.
- Burnham.
- Bully Hills, 6.
- Claxby by Alford.
- Cockerington.
- Cleasham.
- Donington-on-Bain.
- Falkingham.
- Gainsborough.
- Halton, West.
- Haugham.
- Horncastle.
- Ingoldsby.
- Kelstern.
- Langton by Spilsby, 3.
- Revesby.
- Riseholme.
- Spellow Hills.
- Temple Bruer, 2.
- Wainfleet, 2.
- Walcot.
- Well near Alford, 3.
- Welton in the Marsh.
- Wold Newton, 20 urns.
The barrow was considered to be the habitation of the spirits of the dead.