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Site name Warmwell Quarry, West Knighton

Site number 1675

Burial codes 3001 3003 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3153 3161 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A possible occupation site with in Feature 2 of a partial post circle with associated pits, a cordon decorated cinerary urn associated with a deposit of cremated bone. The structure may have been ritual. The other feature group comprised heavily truncated areas of burning, suggestive of either hearths or funeral pyres. In one bowl shaped feature were four flint scrapers, a core and several waste flakes partly covered by a stone pounder of ironstone.

Remains/Period Y3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 472

Y coordinate 888

Bibliographic source Bevan 1993

Query

Site name	Warmwell Quarry, West Knighton
Site number	1675
Burial codes	3001 3003 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3153 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A possible occupation site with in Feature 2 of a partial post circle with associated pits, a cordon decorated cinerary urn associated with a deposit of cremated bone. The structure may have been ritual. The other feature group comprised heavily truncated areas of burning, suggestive of either hearths or funeral pyres. In one bowl shaped feature were four flint scrapers, a core and several waste flakes partly covered by a stone pounder of ironstone.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	472
Y coordinate	888
Bibliographic source	Bevan 1993