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Site name Pewsey 4, Down Farm

Site number 456

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4032 4042 4044 4045 4052 4065 4072 4084 4092 4098 4101 4105 4125 4143 4152 4153 4157 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a slightly oval mound of flinty clay scraped from the surrounding area. 1.5m north west of the centre was a sub-rectangular grave cut into chalk, aligned EW and 1.35m x 2.1m. It contained a wooden lining or coffin with bulging sides and squared ends 0.9m x 1.65m. In the base were chalky grey soil, charcoal specks, and decayed human skeletal material fragments, some articulated and some not. One piece of burnt and one piece of unburnt (?)Beaker ware was in the same layer. The filling was clay from the upcast in which two pieces of collared urn sherds were found.

The body was of a probable male c20-30 and had been interred after exposure elsewhere as disarticulated remains, or had lain exposed in the grave and been disturbed on the spot. An ox bone fragment was in the top of the coffin filling, possibly casual.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 187

Y coordinate 567

Bibliographic source Vatcher 1960

Query

Site name	Pewsey 4, Down Farm
Site number	456
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4032 4042 4044 4045 4052 4065 4072 4084 4092 4098 4101 4105 4125 4143 4152 4153 4157 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a slightly oval mound of flinty clay scraped from the surrounding area. 1.5m north west of the centre was a sub-rectangular grave cut into chalk, aligned EW and 1.35m x 2.1m. It contained a wooden lining or coffin with bulging sides and squared ends 0.9m x 1.65m. In the base were chalky grey soil, charcoal specks, and decayed human skeletal material fragments, some articulated and some not. One piece of burnt and one piece of unburnt (?)Beaker ware was in the same layer. The filling was clay from the upcast in which two pieces of collared urn sherds were found. The body was of a probable male c20-30 and had been interred after exposure elsewhere as disarticulated remains, or had lain exposed in the grave and been disturbed on the spot. An ox bone fragment was in the top of the coffin filling, possibly casual.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	187
Y coordinate	567
Bibliographic source	Vatcher 1960