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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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