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Site name Shrewton 23, Rolleston Field

Site number 489

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4085 4092 4098 4102 4104 4105 4107 4108 4111 4122 4128 4141 4151 4152 4153 4154 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A ditchless bowl barrow, with a chord of 5 post holes running NS at the west side whose posts had been removed on the building of the mound. The primary interment was west of centre and of a middle aged female, slightly crouched, oriented S, on its left side and accompanied by a rubbing stone on a turf behind the head, and a small bronze awl in the fill of turf. The mound was built immediately after interment (the pit upcast was unweathered where it lay).

In post hole 5 to the north was placed the cremated remains of a young adult and some ash, then the hole was backfilled with turf in the upper part of which fill were deposited fragments of pygmy vessel.

Sherds of a food vessel were found in the turf fill of post hole 3.

6m to the north east of the mound a child cremation was placed on the bare chalk, and an inverted food vessel placed over it, which was then covered by a flint cairn.

Two further cremations were inserted into the mound (Pits 2 and 3), one cutting into post hole 5.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 90

Y coordinate 442

Bibliographic source Green and Rollo-Smith 1984

Query

Site name	Shrewton 23, Rolleston Field
Site number	489
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4085 4092 4098 4102 4104 4105 4107 4108 4111 4122 4128 4141 4151 4152 4153 4154 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A ditchless bowl barrow, with a chord of 5 post holes running NS at the west side whose posts had been removed on the building of the mound. The primary interment was west of centre and of a middle aged female, slightly crouched, oriented S, on its left side and accompanied by a rubbing stone on a turf behind the head, and a small bronze awl in the fill of turf. The mound was built immediately after interment (the pit upcast was unweathered where it lay). In post hole 5 to the north was placed the cremated remains of a young adult and some ash, then the hole was backfilled with turf in the upper part of which fill were deposited fragments of pygmy vessel. Sherds of a food vessel were found in the turf fill of post hole 3. 6m to the north east of the mound a child cremation was placed on the bare chalk, and an inverted food vessel placed over it, which was then covered by a flint cairn. Two further cremations were inserted into the mound (Pits 2 and 3), one cutting into post hole 5.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	90
Y coordinate	442
Bibliographic source	Green and Rollo-Smith 1984