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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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