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Site name Winterslow 20, Easton Down

Site number 647

Burial codes 4001 4005 4007 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4045 4051 4052 4053 4065 4073 4084 4092 4096 4104 4111 4124 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow on the site of Beaker 'dwelling pits' surrounding the Easton Down flint mine shafts. The barrow mound was of chalk rubble covered with turf and earth with flint. The ditch was square in section, and silts suggested the barrow's contemporaneity with the settlement site. Just north of centre there was a rectangular pit 1.65m x 1m x 0.3m deep, neatly cut, and containing in the south west corner a skull, facing south. Propped up against the vault of the skull and erect on its broader end was a roughly chipped bar of flint c24cm long.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 238

Y coordinate 358

Bibliographic source Stone 1931, 1934b

Query

Site name	Winterslow 20, Easton Down
Site number	647
Burial codes	4001 4005 4007 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4045 4051 4052 4053 4065 4073 4084 4092 4096 4104 4111 4124 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow on the site of Beaker 'dwelling pits' surrounding the Easton Down flint mine shafts. The barrow mound was of chalk rubble covered with turf and earth with flint. The ditch was square in section, and silts suggested the barrow's contemporaneity with the settlement site. Just north of centre there was a rectangular pit 1.65m x 1m x 0.3m deep, neatly cut, and containing in the south west corner a skull, facing south. Propped up against the vault of the skull and erect on its broader end was a roughly chipped bar of flint c24cm long.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	238
Y coordinate	358
Bibliographic source	Stone 1931, 1934b