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Site name Aldbourne 6, Sugar Hill Down
Site number 525
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4122 4123 4124 4129 4130 4143 4152 4153 4154 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with an earth, chalk and sarsen mound over a central cairn of soil free sarsen stones, many of which had been burnt red by fire. The cairn was 8.4m in diameter and 1.5m high. At the centre the ground surface had been cut back to the natural chalk in an area 1.35m x 1.05m. In this was a primary cremation underlaid by wood and covered by a charcoal and wood ash layer. At the south end was the top and bottom of an incense cup, and near to them fragments of a bronze knife, and 2 fire damaged awls. Also in the bones were 7 beads (3 of vitreous paste, 2 of amber, 1 of lignite and 1 of a section of encrinite), a large flat ring of lignite, a lignite pendant, a conical perforated button of shale, the cust of a carduin shell, and a small black haematite pebble. Beyond the north end of the bared area was a second incense cup with a few scattered burnt bones: the cup appeared to have its indentations filled with a white material. Among the ashes covering the bones were 6 unburnt flint flakes; among the sarsens were many bones of pig and ox, two arrow points (one barbed, one burnt in part) and the end of a boar's tusk, partly worked.

Above the cairn in the mound were 9 potsherds including 2 thong-marked sherds and a Beaker sherd.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 247
Y coordinate 771
Bibliographic source Greenwell 1880, Goddard 1913


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