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Site name | Handley 5 |
Site number | 697 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4160 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow with a cremation and 27 flint flakes, no pottery. The body appears to have been cremated on the spot (there was a 1.5m long charcoal and bone deposit) and a heap of earth and flint piled over. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | ST |
X coordinate | 972 |
Y coordinate | 179 |
Bibliographic source | Pitt-Rivers 1888, Grinsell 1959 |
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