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Site name Bower Chalke 7, Marleycombe Hill Group
Site number 516
Burial codes 3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3043 3048 3051 3065 3072 3084 3093 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with earth and flint mound and some added chalk. Over and around the centre was a large mass of flints mixed with earth under which were three pits. Centrally a long shallow pit 1.6m x 0.6m was oriented virtually EW, and contained an adult inhumation (disturbed) unaccompanied by grave goods. To the south was an empty pit, and to the north east a basin shaped pit with much burnt bone and ashes which had scorched the earth when inserted. The bones were of an adult, and some were incompletely burnt. Some Late Bronze Age sherds were in this pit, possibly of a barrel urn.
Remains/Period Y3
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 232
Y coordinate 226
Bibliographic source Clay 1927b


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