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Site name Winterborne Whitchurch 1, Whatcombe Down
Site number 1677
Burial codes 3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3043 3047 3051 3065 3074 3083 3091 3098 3104 3108 3111 3122 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a central primary cremation with ashes in an upright bucket urn with finger tip decoration and 5 lugs, in a deep pit in the barrow floor. Amid the calcined bones were nine rudely chipped arrow heads. A dome of large flints covered the deposit. Above the flints were 4 inhumations, three extended adults, head to W, and a crouched child c12 also oriented W. On the south side of the mound a small urn was recovered from near the surface, without a cremation.
Remains/Period Y3
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square ST
X coordinate 855
Y coordinate 20
Bibliographic source Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959


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