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Site name Shrewton 5l, Net Down

Site number 488

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4048 4051 4053 4065 4074 4084 4085 4092 4098 4102 4104 4108 4111 4121 4128 4143 4152 4153 4160 4161 4162 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bell barrow with a central pit which was cut through the east edge of a cremation pyre, both ash and charcoal being still present. In the base of Pit 1 was a layer of tight packed cremated bone, ash and broken pottery. Turf was packed above this and the pit upcast returned to form a capping for the pit and the surrounding turf. Probably an urn had been in the pit but was robbed through a recently dug pit.

Two large oval pits (3 and 4) to the east north east and west south west of Pit 1 seem to have been excavated and soon afterwards backfilled with earth and chalk, and the surplus chalk spread over both.

Pit 2 was at the north east edge of the mound, cut through it, and contained the cremation of a young female on a thin layer of ash and charcoal mix, in an organic container secured by a string of beads of faience, shale, chalk and periwinkle shell. Around the cremation was earth and the grave pit was sealed with a chalk capping. The pit could have been a satellite. Another secondary or satellite burial was south south east of Pit 1 at the edge of the chalk cap, the crouched inhumation of an adolescent on the old land surface.

At the north of the U-shaped ditch a hearth had been set before silting had occurred. The mound was of turf core with a chalk cap.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 89

Y coordinate 448

Bibliographic source Green and Rollo-Smith 1984

Query

Site name	Shrewton 5l, Net Down
Site number	488
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4048 4051 4053 4065 4074 4084 4085 4092 4098 4102 4104 4108 4111 4121 4128 4143 4152 4153 4160 4161 4162 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bell barrow with a central pit which was cut through the east edge of a cremation pyre, both ash and charcoal being still present. In the base of Pit 1 was a layer of tight packed cremated bone, ash and broken pottery. Turf was packed above this and the pit upcast returned to form a capping for the pit and the surrounding turf. Probably an urn had been in the pit but was robbed through a recently dug pit. Two large oval pits (3 and 4) to the east north east and west south west of Pit 1 seem to have been excavated and soon afterwards backfilled with earth and chalk, and the surplus chalk spread over both. Pit 2 was at the north east edge of the mound, cut through it, and contained the cremation of a young female on a thin layer of ash and charcoal mix, in an organic container secured by a string of beads of faience, shale, chalk and periwinkle shell. Around the cremation was earth and the grave pit was sealed with a chalk capping. The pit could have been a satellite. Another secondary or satellite burial was south south east of Pit 1 at the edge of the chalk cap, the crouched inhumation of an adolescent on the old land surface. At the north of the U-shaped ditch a hearth had been set before silting had occurred. The mound was of turf core with a chalk cap.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	89
Y coordinate	448
Bibliographic source	Green and Rollo-Smith 1984