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Site name Ashey Down, Isle of Wight, Barrow 8

Site number 703

Burial codes 4002 4005 4007 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4042 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4101 4104 4107 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bell barrow much ploughed out with a core of turf and top soil capped with flints and chalk. The ditch had been dug as a series of scoops joined together roughly with bridging gullies. There was primary inhumation on the barrow floor represented by bone scatter to the east of the barrow centre. To the north of this presumed burial were two small pits cut in the chalk, and immediately refilled with chalk and some flint flakes and animal bone fragments. There was a secondary undatable inhumation in the top of the north west ditch, an extended adult male of late middle age. The buried land surface contained (?)Neolithic potsherds. 2476 flints were found distributed through the mound, including 2318 waste flakes, 76 fire-cracked and 70 worked flakes.

Remains/Period Y4

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SZ

X coordinate 574

Y coordinate 877

Bibliographic source Drewett 1970, Tomalin 1973

Query

Site name	Ashey Down, Isle of Wight, Barrow 8
Site number	703
Burial codes	4002 4005 4007 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4042 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4101 4104 4107 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bell barrow much ploughed out with a core of turf and top soil capped with flints and chalk. The ditch had been dug as a series of scoops joined together roughly with bridging gullies. There was primary inhumation on the barrow floor represented by bone scatter to the east of the barrow centre. To the north of this presumed burial were two small pits cut in the chalk, and immediately refilled with chalk and some flint flakes and animal bone fragments. There was a secondary undatable inhumation in the top of the north west ditch, an extended adult male of late middle age. The buried land surface contained (?)Neolithic potsherds. 2476 flints were found distributed through the mound, including 2318 waste flakes, 76 fire-cracked and 70 worked flakes.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SZ
X coordinate	574
Y coordinate	877
Bibliographic source	Drewett 1970, Tomalin 1973