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Site name Handley Hill Entrenchment

Site number 62

Burial codes 5001 5006 5021 5023 5026 5028 5030 5035 5042 5046 5052 5053 5065 5075 5085 5091 5094 5104 5111 5126 5127 5128 5143 5153 5159 5181

3500bc - 2500bc A pit to the north west of the entrenchment contained the single burial of a disarticulated skeleton. 0.4m beneath the bones 12 bones of small oxen were laid out as if on a flat surface. Mixed in the chalk rubble infill was Neolithic pottery, a rim sherd from the bottom of the pit fitting others to make one third of an early Neolithic bowl. Possible post hole in the north portion of the pit.

Remains/Period Y5

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 12

Y coordinate 167

Bibliographic source Pitt-Rivers 1898, Piggott 1936, Kinnes 1979

Query

Site name	Handley Hill Entrenchment
Site number	62
Burial codes	5001 5006 5021 5023 5026 5028 5030 5035 5042 5046 5052 5053 5065 5075 5085 5091 5094 5104 5111 5126 5127 5128 5143 5153 5159 5181
3500bc - 2500bc	A pit to the north west of the entrenchment contained the single burial of a disarticulated skeleton. 0.4m beneath the bones 12 bones of small oxen were laid out as if on a flat surface. Mixed in the chalk rubble infill was Neolithic pottery, a rim sherd from the bottom of the pit fitting others to make one third of an early Neolithic bowl. Possible post hole in the north portion of the pit.
Remains/Period	Y5
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	12
Y coordinate	167
Bibliographic source	Pitt-Rivers 1898, Piggott 1936, Kinnes 1979