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Site name Winterborne Steepleton 47, The Down

Site number 1681

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4123 4143 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a chalk, flint and earth mound covering a central cist c0.5m square and 0.25m deep filled with ashes and cremated bone. In the deposit was a highly finished stone battle axe. The fragments of a cinerary urn were interspersed throughout the mound from top to foot.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 613

Y coordinate 886

Bibliographic source Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959

Query

Site name	Winterborne Steepleton 47, The Down
Site number	1681
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4123 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a chalk, flint and earth mound covering a central cist c0.5m square and 0.25m deep filled with ashes and cremated bone. In the deposit was a highly finished stone battle axe. The fragments of a cinerary urn were interspersed throughout the mound from top to foot.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	613
Y coordinate	886
Bibliographic source	Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959