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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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