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Site name | Bishops Cannings 62, Roughridge Hill |
Site number | 504 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4141 4152 4153 4161 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow covering an unaccompanied primary cremation. One stake circle was inside the mound, one at its edge and one outside, all being concentric. A cremation beneath a collared urn was found in a pit beyond the barrow on the south. A pit containing a burnt square of bead was found on the south west. A number of other empty pits were also found. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Wiltshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 60 |
Y coordinate | 660 |
Bibliographic source | Thurnam 1871, Proudfoot 1965 |
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