Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Site name Shrewton 5d, Net Down

Site number 480

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4034 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4084 4093 4098 4103 4104 4111 4112 4128 4141 4151 4152 4153 4162 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bell barrow covering two eccentric stake circles with a passage to the south west, surrounding an oval central pit, chalk-cut and filled with brown loam covering the cremated remains of 1-2 adults inserted in an organic container. Ashes were mixed into the grave fill. A third smaller stake circle surrounded a sterile pit to the east, and immediately to the north of this the cremation of an adult female had been placed on the chalk. Across the north east of the mound platform ran a line of deeper stake holes at the south end of which in a shallow pit was set the cremation of an adult male covered by an inverted collared urn. A sterile pit was at the north end. The ditch was flat-bottomed, and no mound survived.

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 5d, Net Down
Site number	480
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4034 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4084 4093 4098 4103 4104 4111 4112 4128 4141 4151 4152 4153 4162 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bell barrow covering two eccentric stake circles with a passage to the south west, surrounding an oval central pit, chalk-cut and filled with brown loam covering the cremated remains of 1-2 adults inserted in an organic container. Ashes were mixed into the grave fill. A third smaller stake circle surrounded a sterile pit to the east, and immediately to the north of this the cremation of an adult female had been placed on the chalk. Across the north east of the mound platform ran a line of deeper stake holes at the south end of which in a shallow pit was set the cremation of an adult male covered by an inverted collared urn. A sterile pit was at the north end. The ditch was flat-bottomed, and no mound survived.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	87
Y coordinate	448
Bibliographic source	Green and Rollo-Smith 1984