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Site name Randwick I
Site number 37
Burial codes 5002 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5031 5042 5047 5051 5065 5075 5084 5104 5111 5128 5143 5151 5152 5181
3500bc - 2500bc A long barrow oriented NE with a horned entrance leading into a single burial chamber containing a confused mass of human bones, several sherds, and three flint flakes. The barrow contained a medial wall with offsets. Outside the dry stone wall revetment near the south west end were the remains of several (13?) crouched dolichocephalic skeletons.

The mound had been disturbed in Roman times.
Remains/Period Y5
County Gloucestershire
Region SW
National grid square SO
X coordinate 825
Y coordinate 69
Bibliographic source Witts 1884, Crawford 1925


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