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Site name Shrewton 5g, Net Down
Site number 483
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4065 4075 4083 4092 4098 4104 4108 4113 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A disc barrow whose central mound was surrounded by a 3m wide band of flint nodules set slightly into the old land surface. Two pits were enclosed by the flint circle. Pit 1 was just off the centre and had contained the cremation of an adolescent. Pit 2 to the west was cut through the mound and was secondary. It consisted of the packed fragments of a child cremation in the base of a collared urn. The barrow would have required much labour to construct.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 88
Y coordinate 448
Bibliographic source Green and Rollo-Smith 1984


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