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Site name Codford St Mary 1, Lamb Down

Site number 458

Burial codes 4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4101 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181 1001 1005 1022 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1102 1105 1112 1121 1143 1152 1153 1181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow surrounded by a ditch and an outer bank. Its mound was of fine chalk with some soil added. A roughly oval grave was cut into the chalk at the centre, had been disturbed, and probably contained a male inhumation from the bones remaining.

There were traces of a Middle Bronze Age urn in the south east quadrant of the mound by a shallow hole 1.2m from the ditch edge. The ditch contained in its primary and secondary chalk silts many fragments of bone including horse, ox, pig, sheep, dog and fox. One sheep's tibia formed a scoop artefact. Both Deverel-Rimbury and Middle Bronze Age pot fragments occurred at the same level above the silts, the first on the west side, the second exactly opposite on the east side, in a thick layer of chalky soil.

100bc-AD43 An extended burial lay to the south of the central grave, of a female c20-25, with an iron penannular brooch of Type D on the left shoulder, possibly datable to the 1st Century AD or BC. It had been disturbed by the reopening of the central grave. Two unaccompanied secondary cremations of type unknown (as the remains were scanty) were to the south of this burial.

Remains/Period Y4 Y1

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 989

Y coordinate 394

Bibliographic source Vatcher 1963

Query

Site name	Codford St Mary 1, Lamb Down
Site number	458
Burial codes	4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4101 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181 1001 1005 1022 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1102 1105 1112 1121 1143 1152 1153 1181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow surrounded by a ditch and an outer bank. Its mound was of fine chalk with some soil added. A roughly oval grave was cut into the chalk at the centre, had been disturbed, and probably contained a male inhumation from the bones remaining. There were traces of a Middle Bronze Age urn in the south east quadrant of the mound by a shallow hole 1.2m from the ditch edge. The ditch contained in its primary and secondary chalk silts many fragments of bone including horse, ox, pig, sheep, dog and fox. One sheep's tibia formed a scoop artefact. Both Deverel-Rimbury and Middle Bronze Age pot fragments occurred at the same level above the silts, the first on the west side, the second exactly opposite on the east side, in a thick layer of chalky soil.
100bc-AD43	An extended burial lay to the south of the central grave, of a female c20-25, with an iron penannular brooch of Type D on the left shoulder, possibly datable to the 1st Century AD or BC. It had been disturbed by the reopening of the central grave. Two unaccompanied secondary cremations of type unknown (as the remains were scanty) were to the south of this burial.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y1
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	989
Y coordinate	394
Bibliographic source	Vatcher 1963