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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 Ben Bridge A

Site number 1435

Burial codes 4001 4006 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4122 4127 4143 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A circular pit c0.9m across x 0.6m deep containing 136 flint flakes including cores, 100 sherds of pottery representing at least 6 vessels of B Beaker affinities, 3 fitting Western Neolithic sherds, and one possibly of grooved ware, a small wristguard, a broken whetstone, a pebble or sling stone, a few pieces of burnt clay, and scraps of gravel and charcoal. The wristguard lay higher in the pit, and the pottery was mainly on the north and west side of the pit, and some of the larger pieces at the base.

Cremated bone would have disappeared in the soil at this site, and the excavator considered that the deposits of pottery, flint (including a high percentage of burnt flint) and the wristguard suggested a cremation Beaker burial.

Remains/Period Y4

County Somerset

Region SW

National grid square ST

X coordinate 550

Y coordinate 585

Bibliographic source Rahtz and Greenfield 1977

Query

Site name	Ben Bridge A
Site number	1435
Burial codes	4001 4006 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4122 4127 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A circular pit c0.9m across x 0.6m deep containing 136 flint flakes including cores, 100 sherds of pottery representing at least 6 vessels of B Beaker affinities, 3 fitting Western Neolithic sherds, and one possibly of grooved ware, a small wristguard, a broken whetstone, a pebble or sling stone, a few pieces of burnt clay, and scraps of gravel and charcoal. The wristguard lay higher in the pit, and the pottery was mainly on the north and west side of the pit, and some of the larger pieces at the base. Cremated bone would have disappeared in the soil at this site, and the excavator considered that the deposits of pottery, flint (including a high percentage of burnt flint) and the wristguard suggested a cremation Beaker burial.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Somerset
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	550
Y coordinate	585
Bibliographic source	Rahtz and Greenfield 1977