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Site name Marshfield 6, Barrow IV
Site number 344
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4105 4109 4110 4111 4128 4130 4143 4152 4153 4154 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow with an outer stone kerb. There was an ox bone just inside the kerb, and secondary interments in the south west sector of the kerb. The primary interment was in the barrow centre under a pile of 6-7 large blocks of oolite, fire-marked externally. The earth around contained much scattered charcoal, a little calcined bone of a person c17-20, and several fragments of one or more Middle Bronze Age collared urns.

The cairn and Pit 1: the cairn covered a small pile of clean earth piled on top of a slab laid on the subsoil surface, which showed traces of charcoal and burned earth. The slab covered a small pit filled with clean charcoal tightly packed, including calcined fragments of infant cranium, vertebrae and uncut milk molars.

Pit 2 north west of the kerb junction was covered by 2 overlapping oolite slabs, weathered and burnt, resting on a patch of burned earth and charcoal. The pit contained mixed charcoal, earth and small stones, and on top of the filling at the centre a small burnt fossil bivalve. Scattered through the filling were a few fragments of well calcined human bone.

Pit 3 was like Pit 1. Pit 4 was under a slab lying on the kerb 1.5m east of Pit 1. It had an earthier filling with minute pieces of bone.
Remains/Period Y4
County Gloucestershire
Region SW
National grid square ST
X coordinate 795
Y coordinate 745
Bibliographic source Gettins, Taylor and Grinsell 1953


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