Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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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 Snail Down XVI

Site number 1665

Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4045 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4111 4128 4141 4152 4153 4167 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A pond barrow with just within the bank a sub-rectangular enclosure containing three pits. These had been left open a while, and then a few chips of burnt bone inserted in two of them, and covered with dark brown loam like the surrounding topsoil. The third pit was at the barrow centre, and consisted of an upper pit in the floor of which a smaller pit had been dug containing a small quantity of cremated bone.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 219

Y coordinate 520

Bibliographic source Thomas and Thomas 1960

Query

Site name	Snail Down XVI
Site number	1665
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4045 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4111 4128 4141 4152 4153 4167 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A pond barrow with just within the bank a sub-rectangular enclosure containing three pits. These had been left open a while, and then a few chips of burnt bone inserted in two of them, and covered with dark brown loam like the surrounding topsoil. The third pit was at the barrow centre, and consisted of an upper pit in the floor of which a smaller pit had been dug containing a small quantity of cremated bone.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	219
Y coordinate	520
Bibliographic source	Thomas and Thomas 1960