Ponton Heath Barrow Cemetery

The Ponton Heath Barrow Cemetery is a group of at least eleven Middle Bronze Age round barrows south of Grantham, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England [1]. Five of the barrows were destroyed by ironstone quarrying in 1959; the remaining six are scheduled monuments [1]. The cemetery is located on Ponton Heath, an area of high ground several miles south of the market town of Grantham [1]. It is centred approximately 1.2 kilometres northeast of the hamlet of Hungerton and 1.5 kilometres southwest of the village of Stroxton [1]. In 1959, following the opening of Harlaxton Quarry No. 4, a rescue excavation was carried out by Ernest Greenfield of the Ministry of Works [1]. In Barrow J he found an intact main burial chamber containing a crushed red collared urn, decorated with cord impressions, inverted over burned bone [1]. He also found numerous secondary cremations and stone tools, leading him to classify the builders as the "Yorkshire Food Vessel Culture" in the terminology of the time [1]. The site also contained evidence of later Romano-British occupation [1].