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Site name Hampnett 3, Burn Ground
Site number 351
Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4101 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow, the cairn without a kerb, but defined by a ring of stones. A shallow secondary cremation pit in the north east quadrant contained burnt bones of one adult male, and charcoal. The central deposit had been disturbed, leaving some fragments of cremated bone.
Remains/Period Y4
County Gloucestershire
Region SW
National grid square SP
X coordinate 85
Y coordinate 161
Bibliographic source Grimes 1960a, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960


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