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Site name All Cannings 1, Tan Hill
Site number 553
Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4184
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with 2 circular pits scooped out of the chalk 0.3-0.6m apart, each 0.75m in diameter, filled with grey ash but with no distinct trace of burnt bone. Above these in the barrow mound were 2 small pieces of deer's horn and a coarse black potsherd, and above these the bones and teeth of sheep and oxen.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 91
Y coordinate 646
Bibliographic source Thurnam 1860b, Goddard 1913


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