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Site name Monkton Farleigh 2, Jug's Grave

Site number 507

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4033 4037 4042 4044 4047 4051 4065 4071 4085 4093 4098 4101 4104 4105 4108 4110 4111 4121 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4156 4171 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc An oval mound oriented SW/NE comprising a core of overlapping stone slabs sloping up towards a common centre, then covered by rubble. There was a primary interment of two skeletons not complete or fully articulated, in a dressed stone cist 1.2m x 0.9m oriented NNW, associated with three barbed and tanged arrow heads, 1 tanged arrow head, 12 sherds of (?)Beaker and a gold disc stamped with a Maltese cross design (each arm having 6 indentations) and an encircling border of two rings with 60 indentations, 3cm in diameter overall. (Compare Mere 6a, Site 585, for another example of a gold disc with markings). The disc is considered of the earliest Beaker period.

The east stone of the cist was marked on the upper part of its inner face with 6 apparently natural potholes, and seemed mitred at the south end. The west stone had 2 horizontal grooves and 3 holes arranged in a pyramid form at the south end. The south corner was also similarly mitred. The capstone had two holes in its under surface. One skeleton was dolichocephalic, the other brachycephalic.

There were secondary interments of possibly 4 disarticulated inhumations in the north part of the mound, 1 of a person c16-20 and probably male, another of a child.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 797

Y coordinate 630

Bibliographic source Underwood 1946, 1948, Grinsell 1957a, Taylor 1973

Query

Site name	Monkton Farleigh 2, Jug's Grave
Site number	507
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4033 4037 4042 4044 4047 4051 4065 4071 4085 4093 4098 4101 4104 4105 4108 4110 4111 4121 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4156 4171 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	An oval mound oriented SW/NE comprising a core of overlapping stone slabs sloping up towards a common centre, then covered by rubble. There was a primary interment of two skeletons not complete or fully articulated, in a dressed stone cist 1.2m x 0.9m oriented NNW, associated with three barbed and tanged arrow heads, 1 tanged arrow head, 12 sherds of (?)Beaker and a gold disc stamped with a Maltese cross design (each arm having 6 indentations) and an encircling border of two rings with 60 indentations, 3cm in diameter overall. (Compare Mere 6a, Site 585, for another example of a gold disc with markings). The disc is considered of the earliest Beaker period. The east stone of the cist was marked on the upper part of its inner face with 6 apparently natural potholes, and seemed mitred at the south end. The west stone had 2 horizontal grooves and 3 holes arranged in a pyramid form at the south end. The south corner was also similarly mitred. The capstone had two holes in its under surface. One skeleton was dolichocephalic, the other brachycephalic. There were secondary interments of possibly 4 disarticulated inhumations in the north part of the mound, 1 of a person c16-20 and probably male, another of a child.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	797
Y coordinate	630
Bibliographic source	Underwood 1946, 1948, Grinsell 1957a, Taylor 1973