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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Milton Lilbourne 5, Milton Hill Farm

Site number 448

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4036 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4081 4091 4098 4102 4104 4107 4109 4110 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181 4200

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with an ovate pit containing a collared urn of the second series I/IV inverted over burned bones of a female c40 at the mound centre. At the bottom of the pit there were several small amounts of poorly preserved bone of an adult and an infant. A charcoal spread surrounded the interment, coated the pit sides and permeated its infill. The pit was dug into the chalk after the fire had been extinguished, and was sized to fit that particular urn.

The mound was made by alternate layers of occupation earth and ditch topsoil, and capped by a chalk envelope. Many worked and unworked flints, potsherds and animal bones were contained in the occupation debris.

RC: from a ditch branch HAR-6470 1460 +/- 80

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 201

Y coordinate 579

Bibliographic source Ashbee 1986b

Query

Site name	Milton Lilbourne 5, Milton Hill Farm
Site number	448
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4036 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4081 4091 4098 4102 4104 4107 4109 4110 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with an ovate pit containing a collared urn of the second series I/IV inverted over burned bones of a female c40 at the mound centre. At the bottom of the pit there were several small amounts of poorly preserved bone of an adult and an infant. A charcoal spread surrounded the interment, coated the pit sides and permeated its infill. The pit was dug into the chalk after the fire had been extinguished, and was sized to fit that particular urn. The mound was made by alternate layers of occupation earth and ditch topsoil, and capped by a chalk envelope. Many worked and unworked flints, potsherds and animal bones were contained in the occupation debris. RC: from a ditch branch HAR-6470 1460 +/- 80
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	201
Y coordinate	579
Bibliographic source	Ashbee 1986b