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Site name Tilshead 7, East Down
Site number 1699
Burial codes 5002 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5033 5036 5042 5044 5047 5052 5065 5072 5084 5092 5097 5103 5108 5110 5111 5127 5128 5143 5151 5152 5181 5183
3500bc - 2500bc A long barrow oriented SE, covering a stratum of black earth at the east end. In and between this were remains of 3 men, 3 women and 2 children. The deepest interment showed no signs of violence, but the skulls of the others were cleft. The remains were 'singularly cemented together' in a space c1m in diameter x 0.5m deep. They were intermingled and closely packed, such that this cannot have been their primary burial, but they must have been removed from elsewhere after the bodies had decayed.
Remains/Period Y5
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 60
Y coordinate 494
Bibliographic source Thurnam 1869, Grinsell 1959


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