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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Shrewton 25, Rolleston Field

Site number 492

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4093 4098 4104 4111 4121 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4162 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a chalk capped mound. It covered three contemporary cremation interments, each possibly in a post hole redug to serve as a cremation pit. Each pit had an ogee profile. Pit 1 was approximately central and contained a cremation covered by an inverted collared urn. Ashes and charcoal were poured in and the pit was sealed with a fine layer of soil.

Pit 2 was north east of the centre and was twice the diameter of and deeper than Pit 1. It contained an amber button on its floor, possibly securing a bag in which the cremation had been placed mixed with pyre soil. This was covered by a layer of chalk, then a layer of ash and cremated bone, on top of which was turf.

Pit 3 was west of the centre and filled with a cremation possibly deposited in a bag, over which was poured a mixture of ash containing scraps of cremated bone and soil.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 94

Y coordinate 442

Bibliographic source Green and Rollo-Smith 1984

Query

Site name	Shrewton 25, Rolleston Field
Site number	492
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4093 4098 4104 4111 4121 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4162 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a chalk capped mound. It covered three contemporary cremation interments, each possibly in a post hole redug to serve as a cremation pit. Each pit had an ogee profile. Pit 1 was approximately central and contained a cremation covered by an inverted collared urn. Ashes and charcoal were poured in and the pit was sealed with a fine layer of soil. Pit 2 was north east of the centre and was twice the diameter of and deeper than Pit 1. It contained an amber button on its floor, possibly securing a bag in which the cremation had been placed mixed with pyre soil. This was covered by a layer of chalk, then a layer of ash and cremated bone, on top of which was turf. Pit 3 was west of the centre and filled with a cremation possibly deposited in a bag, over which was poured a mixture of ash containing scraps of cremated bone and soil.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	94
Y coordinate	442
Bibliographic source	Green and Rollo-Smith 1984