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Site name Handley 24, Handley Hill
Site number 701
Burial codes 4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4033 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4129 4143 4152 4161 4181 3005 3009 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3033 3041 3047 3051 3053 3065 3075 3081 3082 3083 3085 3092 3098 3104 3111 3127 3128 3143 3153 3161 3173 3181 3200
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a ditch causewayed at the south west, and containing three cavities, two of which were grave like in form but empty, barring an ox bone and a small fragment of pottery. They were 1.1m and 1.2m deep and filled with chalk rubble, topped with earth. There was a further grave like cavity 9m to the north of the barrow centre, outside of the barrow, and hand made.

Interment 42 in the west side of the barrow was a collared urn (Early/Middle Bronze Age) containing a pair of bone tweezers of Wessex 2 type.
14/1300bc-8/700bc There were 52 secondary interments of cremations in the west side of the barrow largely in the NW/SSW arc outside of the ditch. 13 were on the chalk floor in brown surface mould, and 39 in pits. Of the 52, 47 contained burnt bones and pottery, 4 burnt bones without pottery, and 1 wood ashes but no bones or pottery. Several of these interments contained with the bones and pottery several small pieces of sandstone. All but three urns were upright, 2 of these being inverted, and 1 on its side. In some cases only some fragments of the original urns were deposited, several pieces from different urns being in one deposit. All urns were of Deverel-Rimbury type except interment 42 (see above) which was a collared urn (Early/Middle Bronze Age) containing a pair of bone tweezers.

There also were 6 batches of pottery fragments found in separate deposits, with no accompanying bones. [The excavator believed the pottery deposits in some cases simply marked the interment spot].

One further deposit with a socket for a marker post has more recently been discovered.

RC: from charcoal associated with cremations: No 18 and globular urn BM-1646 950 +/- 40, No 16 and barrel urn BM-1645 885 +/- 35, No 32 and barrel urn BM-1647 865 +/- 40, No 38 and bucket or barrel urn BM-1648 860 +/- 55, deposit D BM-1644 760 +/- 40, No 46 and bucket urn BM-1649 720 +/-45
Remains/Period Y4 Y3
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 10
Y coordinate 165
Bibliographic source Pitt-Rivers 1898, Grinsell 1959, Barrett and Bradley 1980a, Barrett, Bradley, Green and Lewis 1981


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