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Site name Wilsford (S) 39, Wilsford Down, Lake Group
Site number 440
Burial codes 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4093 4101 4104 4105 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3053 3084 3151 3152 3161 3184
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with penannular ditch, a mound of chalk rubble and soil. There was a central cremation in a pit, some human bone and oak charcoal (disturbed). In the south east quadrant to the south of the central pit was a disturbed inhumation of a male c21 or less, scattered, and preceding the barrow mound. There were flints and animal bone in the disturbances.
14/1300bc-8/700bc High up in the ditch filling on the north west side, 1.3m back from the north end of the ditch was a Late Bronze Age biconical urn with a trace of a small organic deposit.
Remains/Period Y4 N3
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 108
Y coordinate 402
Bibliographic source Grimes 1964


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