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Site name Collingbourne Ducis 10, Cow Down

Site number 540

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4046 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4083 4093 4094 4104 4108 4110 4111 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4163 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow whose mound contained a great deal of pot debris, animal bones and teeth in the upper layers, including Beaker sherds. Over the surface chalk was a thick layer of soil mixed with ornamented urn sherds, charred animal bones and flint chippings, c6m in diameter. At the barrow centre was a pit oriented NS, which had contained a hollowed tree trunk and a chalk plaster lining between cist wall and coffin. The tree trunk had extended beyond the surface and the plasterwork continued over it, creating a dome over the grave when the wood decayed. The cremation within was of a young person and accompanied by a horn hammer, but no pottery.

In the south east quadrant in the chalk rubble capping on the surface of the barrow mound, 6 cremations were found. Four of these were simple deposits of cremated bone, and 2 were with urns, one inverted over an adult cremation, the other upright on a mass of burnt bones. There was a unburnt finger bone and some potsherds found in the north trench.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 229

Y coordinate 515

Bibliographic source Lukis 1867

Query

Site name	Collingbourne Ducis 10, Cow Down
Site number	540
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4046 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4083 4093 4094 4104 4108 4110 4111 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4163 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow whose mound contained a great deal of pot debris, animal bones and teeth in the upper layers, including Beaker sherds. Over the surface chalk was a thick layer of soil mixed with ornamented urn sherds, charred animal bones and flint chippings, c6m in diameter. At the barrow centre was a pit oriented NS, which had contained a hollowed tree trunk and a chalk plaster lining between cist wall and coffin. The tree trunk had extended beyond the surface and the plasterwork continued over it, creating a dome over the grave when the wood decayed. The cremation within was of a young person and accompanied by a horn hammer, but no pottery. In the south east quadrant in the chalk rubble capping on the surface of the barrow mound, 6 cremations were found. Four of these were simple deposits of cremated bone, and 2 were with urns, one inverted over an adult cremation, the other upright on a mass of burnt bones. There was a unburnt finger bone and some potsherds found in the north trench.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	229
Y coordinate	515
Bibliographic source	Lukis 1867