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Site name Amesbury 22
Site number 572
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4098 4101 4104 4109 4110 4111 4125 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a primary interment in a 1.2m deep pit cut into the chalk, the inhumation of an adult male, the bones tinged with bronze (the grave is assumed robbed). On the east side of the barrow were two infant inhumations, one head to E, the other to W, each placed on the head of a small cow. There were further secondary interments of a cremation (unaccompanied), and above that an inhumation with a Beaker, 0.45m below the barrow surface.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 130
Y coordinate 418
Bibliographic source Hoare 1812, Goddard 1913


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