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Site name | Shrewton 5h, Net Down |
Site number | 484 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4101 4111 4112 4128 4143 4152 4153 4160 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow with a pyre just south west of centre, and a central interment pit into which cremated bone and ash had been scraped. The almost complete bones of an adult male were recovered. There was no sign of pit upcast. The mound had a chalk cap. |
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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