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Site name | Holdenhurst |
Site number | 69 |
Burial codes | 5002 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5031 5036 5042 5048 5051 5053 5065 5075 5084 5091 5098 5104 5111 5128 5143 5151 5152 5181 |
3500bc - 2500bc | Long barrow oriented NNW. Small primary oval mound oriented SE/NW made of sand with turf and charcoal, covering pink and gray traces (of bone?) in stained floor, possibly a mortuary area. A pit contained calcined flints. There were two charcoal patches. Soil acidity destroyed any bone. The secondary mound was rectangular, with a core of conical loam dumps covered by sand and capped by gravel and turf bonded to a vertical revetment of peat and turf sods, reinforced by brushwood panels. There was a ditch of U-shape opening NNW, in which were found primary plain bowl sherds and flintwork especially at the NNW terminal. In the secondary ditch silts was a succession of Mortlake and Beaker sherds and flintwork, especially at the NNW terminal. |
Remains/Period | Y5 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | SZ |
X coordinate | 120 |
Y coordinate | 946 |
Bibliographic source | Piggott 1937, Kinnes 1992 |
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