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Site name Handley 19, Gussage Hill
Site number 1291
Burial codes 1001 1005 1021 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1041 1048 1051 1065 1075 1084 1091 1098 1104 1106 1112 1128 1143 1151 1152 1181
100bc-AD43 A very small barrow surrounded by a square plan quarry ditch covered a scattered central deposit of calcined bones of an individual c30-35 and charcoal, in association with which were sherds of a jar of Belgic type. In the rapid silting of the ditch was a Romano-British rim sherd.
Remains/Period Y1
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square ST
X coordinate 989
Y coordinate 14
Bibliographic source White 1970a, Whimster 1981


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