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Site name Roundway 5b, Roundway Hill

Site number 550

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4112 4122 4123 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a primary cremation of an adult in a pit 1.7m x 0.75m x 0.6m deep oriented WSW/ENE with a long ledge or step on the north side. With the cremation were 2 neatly grooved whetstones, a larger whetstone, a flat piece of sandstone, a flint barbed and tanged arrow head, a flint knife, flint flakes, a bronze dagger with remains of a sheath, a deer's horn needle, a deer's horn (?)handle, 3 pieces of worked bone including a possible spatula and an imported quartz pebble. Flints and potsherds were in the pit infill.

The mound contained numerous fragments of pottery, and bones of sheep and ox; a small iron spike was also found. There was a disturbed secondary interment near the mound surface, unaccompanied by grave goods.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 15

Y coordinate 648

Bibliographic source Cunnington W 1860a

Query

Site name	Roundway 5b, Roundway Hill
Site number	550
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4112 4122 4123 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a primary cremation of an adult in a pit 1.7m x 0.75m x 0.6m deep oriented WSW/ENE with a long ledge or step on the north side. With the cremation were 2 neatly grooved whetstones, a larger whetstone, a flat piece of sandstone, a flint barbed and tanged arrow head, a flint knife, flint flakes, a bronze dagger with remains of a sheath, a deer's horn needle, a deer's horn (?)handle, 3 pieces of worked bone including a possible spatula and an imported quartz pebble. Flints and potsherds were in the pit infill. The mound contained numerous fragments of pottery, and bones of sheep and ox; a small iron spike was also found. There was a disturbed secondary interment near the mound surface, unaccompanied by grave goods.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	15
Y coordinate	648
Bibliographic source	Cunnington W 1860a