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Site name Amesbury [74b]
Site number 645
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4081 4093 4098 4104 4111 4121 4130 4129 4141 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A disc barrow with a primary cremation in a shallow oval pit which contained a number of struck flint flakes and three beads made from natural chalk fossils. A small inverted pot with cord decoration was found 1.5m north of the cremation, and believed contemporary. 3.6m within the ditch to the north west was a crouched inhumation in an oval pit accompanied by a small water worn pebble by the head. There were 8 stake holes in no obvious pattern in the north east quadrant near the centre, but undatable.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 180
Y coordinate 415
Bibliographic source Thomas 1956


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