Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Roundway 5a, Roundway Hill

Site number 551

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4112 4123 4143 4152 4153 4157 4160 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow whose mound contained many pottery fragments, flint flakes, and bones of ox, sheep, dog and other domestic animals. It covered an oblong pit dug into the chalk 1.6m x 0.9m x 01.05m deep, cut square at the south, irregularly rounded at the north, oriented NS. This contained the cremated bones of an adult which had been deposited in a heap in a wooden coffin c0.75m x 0.3m x unknown depth. Under the bones on the coffin floor was a bronze dagger with remains of a wooden handle 0.3m long. The bones were mixed with wood ash. The cremation pyre remains were found spread out high up in the mound - a small layer of wood ash, and fragments of burnt bone.

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 5a, Roundway Hill
Site number	551
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4112 4123 4143 4152 4153 4157 4160 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow whose mound contained many pottery fragments, flint flakes, and bones of ox, sheep, dog and other domestic animals. It covered an oblong pit dug into the chalk 1.6m x 0.9m x 01.05m deep, cut square at the south, irregularly rounded at the north, oriented NS. This contained the cremated bones of an adult which had been deposited in a heap in a wooden coffin c0.75m x 0.3m x unknown depth. Under the bones on the coffin floor was a bronze dagger with remains of a wooden handle 0.3m long. The bones were mixed with wood ash. The cremation pyre remains were found spread out high up in the mound - a small layer of wood ash, and fragments of burnt bone.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	15
Y coordinate	648
Bibliographic source	Cunnington W 1860a