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Site name East Stoke 15b, Chick's Hill

Site number 686

Burial codes 3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3091 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3159 3161 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow containing a central pit of ovate shape with a shallow south attached lobe, and of irregular baggy shape. It was filled with sand and darker loam, and had not weathered before filling. Alder charcoal was recovered from the lobe, and the near pit was marked as if burned. Above the pit was an inverted globular urn with a cremation inside, but unidentifiable. It was set on some large flints which themselves were above a sand deposit just above the old ground surface. Charcoal was around and above the urn. The pit containing the urn and its setting was dug into a dark grey sand and gravel layer over the old turf line (the first mound layer). In the mound higher up to the north north east was a deposit of charcoal and fired flints in a pit. The mound was of sand from the encircling ditch with a gravel periphery.

Remains/Period Y3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 869

Y coordinate 859

Bibliographic source Ashbee and Dimbleby 1958

Query

Site name	East Stoke 15b, Chick's Hill
Site number	686
Burial codes	3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3091 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3159 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow containing a central pit of ovate shape with a shallow south attached lobe, and of irregular baggy shape. It was filled with sand and darker loam, and had not weathered before filling. Alder charcoal was recovered from the lobe, and the near pit was marked as if burned. Above the pit was an inverted globular urn with a cremation inside, but unidentifiable. It was set on some large flints which themselves were above a sand deposit just above the old ground surface. Charcoal was around and above the urn. The pit containing the urn and its setting was dug into a dark grey sand and gravel layer over the old turf line (the first mound layer). In the mound higher up to the north north east was a deposit of charcoal and fired flints in a pit. The mound was of sand from the encircling ditch with a gravel periphery.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	869
Y coordinate	859
Bibliographic source	Ashbee and Dimbleby 1958