Early Bronze Age
Early Bronze Age (2500 - 1500 BC)
Houses in the Early Bronze Age were usually round with a conical roof and a single entrance.
For barrows, the Neolithic passage graves were replaced by smaller round barrows.
Findings around Northfield Farm, Long Wittenham
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Two barbed-and-tanged arrowheads have been found at Northfield Farm. Recent fieldwalking has also produced a flint knife and a fragment of human skull.
Other flints and utilised pebbles have been found north of Little Wittenham on the gravel terrace edge, probably from a settlement site.
Beaker pottery and some struck flint has been found below Round Hill and a few sherds of Early Bronze Age pottery have been found on Castle Hill.
Early Bronze Age Barrows
There is a group of barrows around Northfield Farm. This suggests extensive clearance of woodland and the development of open expanses of grassland where barrows were placed.
Barrow Excavations
A barrow excavation in the 19th century revealed a female burial and struck flints.
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