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Site name | Child Okeford II, Hambledon Hill |
Site number | 58 |
Burial codes | 5002 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5042 5048 5051 5065 5075 5084 5098 5101 5104 5111 5128 5143 5152 5181 |
3500bc - 2500bc | Long barrow oriented SE, set within the cross ditches of the south side of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure. It had been bulldozed and quarried in farming, and a large quantity of human skeletal material was found over the flanking ditches, which could have come from one adult male. |
Remains/Period | Y5 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | ST |
X coordinate | 849 |
Y coordinate | 120 |
Bibliographic source | Erskine 1951, Mercer 1980, 1988, Kinnes 1979 |
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