Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Chewton Mendip 10, Ashen Hill Group

Site number 1146

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4047 4051 4065 4075 4081 4093 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4156 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a mound of loose stones covering a large deposit of burnt bones and an inverted urn in a cist of loose stones 0.85m x 0.6m covered by a flat grey slab not local. There was a secondary cremation deposit set in a small cavity and covered by a flat stone, higher in the mound.

Remains/Period Y4

County Somerset

Region SW

National grid square ST

X coordinate 540

Y coordinate 520

Bibliographic source Scarth 1859, Grinsell 1971

Query

Site name	Chewton Mendip 10, Ashen Hill Group
Site number	1146
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4047 4051 4065 4075 4081 4093 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4156 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a mound of loose stones covering a large deposit of burnt bones and an inverted urn in a cist of loose stones 0.85m x 0.6m covered by a flat grey slab not local. There was a secondary cremation deposit set in a small cavity and covered by a flat stone, higher in the mound.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Somerset
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	540
Y coordinate	520
Bibliographic source	Scarth 1859, Grinsell 1971