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Site name Devil's Jumps 2, Monkton Down
Site number 1170
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A conical round barrow covering at the centre a deposit of burnt bones. These had been covered by a small mound of fine soil which was covered in turn by a thick course of flints; over these was a thin layer of both, and above that another but very thin course of flints; and then the main barrow mound of earth.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 120
Y coordinate 720
Bibliographic source Franks 1854


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