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Site name Collingbourne Ducis 3a, Snail Down

Site number 502

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4112 4128 4141 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow covering a post circle which contained three pits. Two in the south west quadrant had been disturbed, the third in the north east sector was almost circular and dug 0.6m into bedrock chalk. It contained an adult cremation including a cranial disc trepanned from the parietal bone of the skull. The low mound covering pits and post holes was of chalky soil. Four probable Romano-British burials of crouched inhumations with associated Romano-British sherds were later inserted into the mound. Some Beaker and Woodhenge grooved ware sherds were associated with the early phase of the site, found in disturbed contents. A shale bead identical to that found in the secondary cremation in Collingbourne Kingston 8 (Site 499) was lying on natural chalk inside the post hole circle.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 220

Y coordinate 521

Bibliographic source Thomas and Thomas 1955

Query

Site name	Collingbourne Ducis 3a, Snail Down
Site number	502
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4112 4128 4141 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow covering a post circle which contained three pits. Two in the south west quadrant had been disturbed, the third in the north east sector was almost circular and dug 0.6m into bedrock chalk. It contained an adult cremation including a cranial disc trepanned from the parietal bone of the skull. The low mound covering pits and post holes was of chalky soil. Four probable Romano-British burials of crouched inhumations with associated Romano-British sherds were later inserted into the mound. Some Beaker and Woodhenge grooved ware sherds were associated with the early phase of the site, found in disturbed contents. A shale bead identical to that found in the secondary cremation in Collingbourne Kingston 8 (Site 499) was lying on natural chalk inside the post hole circle.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	220
Y coordinate	521
Bibliographic source	Thomas and Thomas 1955