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Site name Bathampton 1, Bathampton Down
Site number 1392
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow with a mound of rubbly stone, where the primary interment was not found, but there were secondary deposits of burnt bones with charcoal and grey ashes in a black urn, in a rock cut pit 0.3m across x 0.33m deep near the south margin of the barrow; and in a pit 2.4m from the last were coarse black potsherds, charcoal, and traces of burnt bones. Within a retaining circle of stones on the north side was a third pit containing black potsherds and charcoal.
Remains/Period Y4
County Somerset
Region SW
National grid square ST
X coordinate 768
Y coordinate 654
Bibliographic source Grey 1904, 1905, Grinsell 1971


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