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Site name Fovant 1, Fovant Down
Site number 453
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4034 4042 4046 4051 4065 4074 4084 4091 4098 4101 4105 4112 4122 4125 4143 4152 4153 4157 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with beneath the probable centre a rectangular pit with its long axis SW/NE. Filling its lower portion were the remains of an oak coffin which had contained the differentially decayed and hence partially preserved skeleton of a young male on its left side, head to SW. In front of the skull bones was a large antler of red deer, and a pick-like implement of antler lay where the hips should have been. One calcined flint was in the coffin, but this could have been accidental. The coffin was probably of two complete upper and lower pieces of timber. Human skeletal material surviving suggested a Beaker person.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 12
Y coordinate 275
Bibliographic source Clay 1928b


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