Bush Barrow
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The Bush Barrow is a site of the early British Bronze Age (ca. 2000 BC), at the western end of the Normanton Down Barrows cemetery. It is among the most important sites of the Stonehenge complex. It was excavated in 1808 by Sir Richard Colt Hoare and William Cunnington. The finds are displayed at Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes.
The barrow contained a male skeleton with rich funerary goods, including a large 'lozenge'-shaped piece of gold, a tanged spearhead and Bronze rivets (left over from a decayed wooden shield).The design of the artifact know as the Bush Barrow Lozenge (the larger of a pair) has recently been analyzed and shown to be based on a hexagon construction[1] , both in its form and decorative elements. A similar lozenge from Clandon Barrow, in Dorset was shown to use a decagon in its design.
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- ^ Johnson, Anthony, Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma pp 182-185 (Thames & Hudson, 2008) ISBN 978-0-500-05155-9
