Bush Barrow

The site of a rich grave under a barrow that belonged to the Wessex Culture of southern England. The single male inhumation included a bronze axe, two bronze daggers, a stone macehead.

Rich grave under a barrow, belonging to the Wessex culture of southern England. It contained a single male inhumation with grave goods, including a bronze axe, two bronze daggers of ‘Bush Barrow’ type, one of which had a hilt decorated with many tiny gold pins, a belthook and two lozenge-shaped plaques of gold with incised decoration, in addition to a stone macehead and zig-zag shaped bone mountings for the mace shaft; these have often been compared to similar mountings from Mycenae, but the Bush Barrow examples are probably several centuries earlier.