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Site name Collingbourne Ducis 21, Sunny Hill Down

Site number 541

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4071 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4159 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a central circular cremation pit 0.6m wide x 0.6m deep containing a mass of charcoal and incinerated bones. A 0.3m thick layer of large flints covered the pit and two large inverted urns (enlarged food vessels) were set on this layer. They originally contained human bone but had been fragmented and were set higher in a central flint mound above the large flint layer.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 238

Y coordinate 512

Bibliographic source Lukis 1867

Query

Site name	Collingbourne Ducis 21, Sunny Hill Down
Site number	541
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4071 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4159 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a central circular cremation pit 0.6m wide x 0.6m deep containing a mass of charcoal and incinerated bones. A 0.3m thick layer of large flints covered the pit and two large inverted urns (enlarged food vessels) were set on this layer. They originally contained human bone but had been fragmented and were set higher in a central flint mound above the large flint layer.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	238
Y coordinate	512
Bibliographic source	Lukis 1867