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Site name Winterbourne Stoke 5
Site number 604
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4048 4051 4053 4065 4072 4084 4098 4104 4111 4122 4123 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bell barrow with an inhumation oriented NE laid in a shallow oblong pit. By the head was a 5-handled Breton type jar. Accompanying the burial was a bronze dagger in an incised gold inlaid wooden sheath, a bronze awl with bone handle, and a second bronze dagger. Several feet above the burial in the body of the mound was a mass of fossil wood like a bunch of twigs, possibly a funeral wreath or garland.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 102
Y coordinate 417
Bibliographic source Hoare 1812


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