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Site name Bulford 27, Sling Plantation

Site number 620

Burial codes 4005 4009 4022 4024 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4047 4051 4053 4065 4071 4072 4073 4074 4084 4093 4094 4098 4101 4104 4108 4109 4110 4111 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181 4182 3001 3005 3022 3024 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a central primary crouched inhumation in a pit oriented SSE, 2.4m x 1.35m x 2.1m deep sharply cut into the chalk. The body was of a brachycephalic male of very large frame on its left side accompanied by a perforated axe-hammer. The pit filling was of flints. Directly above and laid on the same plane as the natural surface was a mass of large flints on which were three male inhumations, crouched, laid down equidistantly with heads to the centre on their left sides, legs and bodies tightly doubled up. Each body lacked the forearms, wrist and hand, and was of a well developed male with brachycephalic head.

Over these had been raised a central core of brown earth in which at seeming random intervals had been interred 7 children ranging in age from a newly born infant to a child c5-6. This mound was 3.6m in diameter and 1.8m high, and the main barrow mound was raised over it.

14/1300bc-8/700bc On the east side of the barrow 0.9m below the mound surface was a secondary interment of a Late Bronze Age bucket urn inverted over a cremation.

Remains/Period Y4 Y3

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 193

Y coordinate 444

Bibliographic source Hawley 1910

Query

Site name	Bulford 27, Sling Plantation
Site number	620
Burial codes	4005 4009 4022 4024 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4047 4051 4053 4065 4071 4072 4073 4074 4084 4093 4094 4098 4101 4104 4108 4109 4110 4111 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181 4182 3001 3005 3022 3024 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a central primary crouched inhumation in a pit oriented SSE, 2.4m x 1.35m x 2.1m deep sharply cut into the chalk. The body was of a brachycephalic male of very large frame on its left side accompanied by a perforated axe-hammer. The pit filling was of flints. Directly above and laid on the same plane as the natural surface was a mass of large flints on which were three male inhumations, crouched, laid down equidistantly with heads to the centre on their left sides, legs and bodies tightly doubled up. Each body lacked the forearms, wrist and hand, and was of a well developed male with brachycephalic head. Over these had been raised a central core of brown earth in which at seeming random intervals had been interred 7 children ranging in age from a newly born infant to a child c5-6. This mound was 3.6m in diameter and 1.8m high, and the main barrow mound was raised over it.
14/1300bc-8/700bc	On the east side of the barrow 0.9m below the mound surface was a secondary interment of a Late Bronze Age bucket urn inverted over a cremation.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y3
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	193
Y coordinate	444
Bibliographic source	Hawley 1910