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Site name Bere Regis 46a

Site number 656

Burial codes 3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3043 3047 3051 3065 3075 3081 3082 3085 3092 3104 3111 3121 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a pit 1.2m east of the centre set in the barrow floor, containing an urn embedded in pulverised chalk, and holding ashes and burnt bone and two 'amulets' cut from some crystalline marble. The mound had a chalk capping with near the centre roughly placed large flints amid the capping. A number of belemnites were scattered throughout the mound. Beneath the flints were three inhumation burials, undatable but probably tertiary. There were four secondary cremations in Late Bronze Age barrel urns, of which three were inverted. These were below the three tertiary inhumation burials and above the primary cremation burial. On the mound capping surface to the south east was an urned cremation lying on its side.

Remains/Period Y3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 823

Y coordinate 967

Bibliographic source Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959, Calkin 1966

Query

Site name	Bere Regis 46a
Site number	656
Burial codes	3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3043 3047 3051 3065 3075 3081 3082 3085 3092 3104 3111 3121 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow with a pit 1.2m east of the centre set in the barrow floor, containing an urn embedded in pulverised chalk, and holding ashes and burnt bone and two 'amulets' cut from some crystalline marble. The mound had a chalk capping with near the centre roughly placed large flints amid the capping. A number of belemnites were scattered throughout the mound. Beneath the flints were three inhumation burials, undatable but probably tertiary. There were four secondary cremations in Late Bronze Age barrel urns, of which three were inverted. These were below the three tertiary inhumation burials and above the primary cremation burial. On the mound capping surface to the south east was an urned cremation lying on its side.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	823
Y coordinate	967
Bibliographic source	Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959, Calkin 1966