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 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).