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Site name Swanage 6, Studland Hill

Site number 1694

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4047 4051 4053 4065 4072 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4108 4109 4110 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a primary inhumation of an adult oriented E, in a grave cut in the chalk in the north of the barrow floor. It was set on its left side and the 6th, 7th and 8th vertebrae appear to have been disturbed. About 0.3m from the centre of the barrow was an infant inhumation resting on the barrow floor, at the edge of a pit containing no burial. A few human bones and fragments of a large (collared?) urn were a short distance away on the north side of the pit edge.

Near the barrow surface were the portions of the skull and jawbone (and other bones) of a child, laid under several thin sand stones.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SZ

X coordinate 40

Y coordinate 813

Bibliographic source Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959

Query

Site name	Swanage 6, Studland Hill
Site number	1694
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4047 4051 4053 4065 4072 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4108 4109 4110 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a primary inhumation of an adult oriented E, in a grave cut in the chalk in the north of the barrow floor. It was set on its left side and the 6th, 7th and 8th vertebrae appear to have been disturbed. About 0.3m from the centre of the barrow was an infant inhumation resting on the barrow floor, at the edge of a pit containing no burial. A few human bones and fragments of a large (collared?) urn were a short distance away on the north side of the pit edge. Near the barrow surface were the portions of the skull and jawbone (and other bones) of a child, laid under several thin sand stones.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SZ
X coordinate	40
Y coordinate	813
Bibliographic source	Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959