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Site name Cold Ashton 1, Barland's Hill 1, West Barrow
Site number 367
Burial codes 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4053 4152 4160 4184
2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow, twin of Site 368, with earthen core and a capping of rubble thickening to the base. There were two layers of burnt material in the barrow section, and a third thicker layer on the barrow floor over bedrock, burnt red by fire. Some black pottery and animal bone was found just above this possible pyre site. 177 flints were found in the barrow, but no human skeletal material. The flints included scrapers, arrow heads and borers.
Remains/Period N4
County Gloucestershire
Region SW
National grid square ST
X coordinate 732
Y coordinate 704
Bibliographic source Bush 1909a, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960


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