Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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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 Shrewton 5c, Net Down

Site number 479

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4097 4101 4111 4112 4124 4141 4152 4153 4154 4162 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bell barrow with stake structures on the barrow floor. A shallow central pit contained close packed cremated remains of an adult male probably placed originally in a bag. Ash covered this and a slotted pygmy vessel accompanying the burial. Earth filled the rest and chalk upcast formed a covering cairn. Some probable secondary use had been ploughed out. A Middle Bronze Age bucket sherd had been washed into the tertiary ditch silt.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 87

Y coordinate 448

Bibliographic source Green and Rollo-Smith 1984

Query

Site name	Shrewton 5c, Net Down
Site number	479
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4097 4101 4111 4112 4124 4141 4152 4153 4154 4162 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bell barrow with stake structures on the barrow floor. A shallow central pit contained close packed cremated remains of an adult male probably placed originally in a bag. Ash covered this and a slotted pygmy vessel accompanying the burial. Earth filled the rest and chalk upcast formed a covering cairn. Some probable secondary use had been ploughed out. A Middle Bronze Age bucket sherd had been washed into the tertiary ditch silt.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	87
Y coordinate	448
Bibliographic source	Green and Rollo-Smith 1984