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Site name Barrow Pleck 3
Site number 1567
Burial codes 3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3032 3043 3038 3051 3065 3075 3084 3093 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3173 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow containing two fairly central cremations with Deverel Rimbury sherds, and a series of 8 secondary deposits of similar character, seven on the edge of the mound and one in a causeway through the ditch. In the ditch was a crouched burial.

In 1980 8 further cremations including three token deposits were found immediately south east of the barrow. All the peripheral deposits were within 5m of the causeway.
Remains/Period Y3
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square ST
X coordinate 980
Y coordinate 200
Bibliographic source Barrett, Bradley, Green and Lewis 1981


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