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Site name | Woodford 12, Heale Hill |
Site number | 422 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4051 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4101 4104 4105 4107 4108 4110 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4173 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A ditched bowl barrow with a mound of an inner clay, flint and chalky soil core, with some burnt material and an outer chalk envelope. The primary burial had been disturbed or robbed, and was probably a cremation in a shell tempered Wessex biconical urn in the central pit. There was other disarticulated material from the central area, in the south east and south west quadrants, of at least 4 adults and one child c10 or more. Other deposits found were as follows: 4 adult and one child inhumation of which 3 were crouched, all at relatively short depths in the mound material, with no recorded outlines of grave pits. One was an adult c35-40, one a male c35-45, one an adult c17-25, one an adult age not deducible, and one a child c10. Cremations were found in the barrow: the primary disturbed cremation, and a group of at least 12 cremation deposits with and without urns probably cut down through the mound. Cremations were found east of the barrow: five cremations (4 in urns) forming a secondary urnfield outside the barrow, possibly part of a larger group, contemporary with the secondary cremations around the barrow mound. The urns were of the Early/Middle Bronze Age. Of the cremation burials, 3 were adults, 2 possible adults, 1 a child, 1 a young adult, and the rest could not be identified. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Wiltshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 110 |
Y coordinate | 366 |
Bibliographic source | Gingell 1988 |
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