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Site name | Figheldean 25, Barrow Clump |
Site number | 454 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4098 4101 4104 4107 4109 4111 4122 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow with a probable primary interment of a brachycephalic old male, flexed, in a chalk cut pit 2.2m x 1.3m x 1.5m deep, accompanied by an A Beaker and flint knife or dagger. Above this were secondary interments of three flexed skeletons and above them that of an infant. Over and about these were the appearances of burning and a small food vessel. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Wiltshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 165 |
Y coordinate | 469 |
Bibliographic source | Newall 1928 |
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