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Site name Winterborne Steepleton 4b
Site number 1616
Burial codes 3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3084 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a primary cremation in a barrel shaped urn with 2 lugs. The mound was of rubbly chalk and the base of the barrow was freely sprinkled with a yellow sand. The sand covered a large flat stone which in turn covered the chalk-cut pit containing the urn.
Remains/Period Y3
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square SY
X coordinate 630
Y coordinate 900
Bibliographic source Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959


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