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Site name Collingbourne Ducis 12, Cow Down

Site number 538

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4051 4052 4053 4065 4075 4084 4098 4101 4104 4111 4121 4128 4143 4152 4153 4158 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a primary pit dug into the chalk containing an interment of burnt bones. Above this was a secondary inhumation of an adult male on a wooden plank 0.9m long with some cremated bone here and there among the incomplete skeleton. About 0.6m above this was a collection of burnt human skeletal material and 7 small beads, 2 of jet, 5 of amber.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 230

Y coordinate 516

Bibliographic source Lukis 1867

Query

Site name	Collingbourne Ducis 12, Cow Down
Site number	538
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4051 4052 4053 4065 4075 4084 4098 4101 4104 4111 4121 4128 4143 4152 4153 4158 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a primary pit dug into the chalk containing an interment of burnt bones. Above this was a secondary inhumation of an adult male on a wooden plank 0.9m long with some cremated bone here and there among the incomplete skeleton. About 0.6m above this was a collection of burnt human skeletal material and 7 small beads, 2 of jet, 5 of amber.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	230
Y coordinate	516
Bibliographic source	Lukis 1867