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Site name Winterbourne Stoke 46
Site number 431
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4093 4104 4105 4111 4122 4123 4128 4141 4152 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow comprising a clay core covered by clay with flints and capped by a chalky spread. Two (?)secondary cremations were in small pits in the south west and north east quadrants (of an adult and of a young adult respectively). 3m outside the ditch at the south a small collared urn was recovered - it was surrounded by stake holes in concentration. No cremated bone was recorded as being in it. At the top of the primary ditch fill were two Windmill Hill sherds and Beaker sherds, but there were also other Early Bronze Age and Romano-British sherds, possibly erosion from the core.

Other cremations were: urn sherds and fragments of cremated bone in weathered mound material at the south (secondary?) and an area of unidentifiable cremated bone in the ditch fill in the south east quadrant.

No central burial was located.[Hoare refers to a burial accompanied by a possible bronze dagger, a whetstone, bone 'tweezers' and other bone implements. The 1961 excavation by Vatcher apparently did not mention Cunnington's excavation traces.]
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 104
Y coordinate 442
Bibliographic source Hoare 1812, Gingell 1988


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