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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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