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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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