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Site name Steyning Round Hill

Site number 1117

Burial codes 3005 3009 3022 3023 3026 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3084 3091 3098 3104 3111 3124 3128 3143 3153 3161 3173 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc An urnfield with 36 interments set beneath large flints in an area roughly 9m in diameter. At the centre of the area there appeared to be a robbed primary grave possibly of Beaker type from surviving sherds along its edges, which may have had a flint cairn covering it originally. A very shallow U-shaped ditch bracketed its north eastern aspect.

All but 4 of the 36 interments seem to have been urned burials, inverted, some buried in shallow scoops in the solid chalk, most evenly distributed over the SW, NW and NE quadrants. Of the three in the SE quadrant, one was a Middle Bronze Age collared urn containing flints mixed with the bones. The other urns were of the barrel, bucket, bowl and bag shaped type normally assigned to the Late Bronze Age.

Remains/Period Y3

County Sussex

Region SE

National grid square TQ

X coordinate 166

Y coordinate 99

Bibliographic source Burstow 1950, 1958

Query

Site name	Steyning Round Hill
Site number	1117
Burial codes	3005 3009 3022 3023 3026 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3084 3091 3098 3104 3111 3124 3128 3143 3153 3161 3173 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	An urnfield with 36 interments set beneath large flints in an area roughly 9m in diameter. At the centre of the area there appeared to be a robbed primary grave possibly of Beaker type from surviving sherds along its edges, which may have had a flint cairn covering it originally. A very shallow U-shaped ditch bracketed its north eastern aspect. All but 4 of the 36 interments seem to have been urned burials, inverted, some buried in shallow scoops in the solid chalk, most evenly distributed over the SW, NW and NE quadrants. Of the three in the SE quadrant, one was a Middle Bronze Age collared urn containing flints mixed with the bones. The other urns were of the barrel, bucket, bowl and bag shaped type normally assigned to the Late Bronze Age.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Sussex
Region	SE
National grid square	TQ
X coordinate	166
Y coordinate	99
Bibliographic source	Burstow 1950, 1958