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Site name Kingston Russell 3a [RCHM 6g], Black Down

Site number 707

Burial codes 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4071 4072 4075 4084 4092 4098 4102 4104 4105 4108 4109 4110 4111 4128 4129 4143 4151 4152 4153 4171 4181 3002 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181

2500bc-14/1300bc A disc barrow with an outer bank possibly featuring a flint ringwork, and two stages of ditches surrounding the mound. In the central grave was the flexed skeleton A of a young adult female, on its left side, facing S, with a line of flints in front of the body, and overlying a headless contracted skeleton of a child B lying on its left side, facing E on the natural chalk. There was a southern Beaker on the grave floor east of the child. The first central inhumation C was probably of a young adult female some of whose articulated bones were found under one of large flints on the grave floor with some of the other bones widely scattered in the grave fill and broken.

There were secondary inhumations: a very young infant D on its right side, flexed, facing the centre accompanied by a small southern food vessel in a roughly rectangular grave cut through the mound just into the natural chalk, east of the central grave. To the south of the central grave was a contracted burial of a child E c4 on its left side facing the centre in a rectangular grave cut through the barrow mound, laid on the natural chalk, a line of flints along its back.

Burial C was probably primary, and burials A and B next. Burial D may have then taken place with the inner ditch being filled and the outer ditch dug. The inner ditch had an irregularly scraped bottom, and the outer ditch an entrance at the SSW.

14/1300bc-8/700bc There were also: a small bucket urn let into the fill of the inner ditch in the north east quadrant; a disturbed cremation in plough soil in the south east quadrant; a disturbed cremation in the central grave fill probably associated with a type IIb globular urn. The central grave fill was thoroughly mixed - dark earth, flint, chalk, human bone fragments, 11 sherds including Beaker and Late Bronze Age sherds, and scattered traces of cremated material. This was partly owing to re-use in antiquity and partly to modern disturbance.

Remains/Period Y4 Y3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 578

Y coordinate 904

Bibliographic source Bailey 1971, 1980

Query

Site name	Kingston Russell 3a [RCHM 6g], Black Down
Site number	707
Burial codes	4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4071 4072 4075 4084 4092 4098 4102 4104 4105 4108 4109 4110 4111 4128 4129 4143 4151 4152 4153 4171 4181 3002 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A disc barrow with an outer bank possibly featuring a flint ringwork, and two stages of ditches surrounding the mound. In the central grave was the flexed skeleton A of a young adult female, on its left side, facing S, with a line of flints in front of the body, and overlying a headless contracted skeleton of a child B lying on its left side, facing E on the natural chalk. There was a southern Beaker on the grave floor east of the child. The first central inhumation C was probably of a young adult female some of whose articulated bones were found under one of large flints on the grave floor with some of the other bones widely scattered in the grave fill and broken. There were secondary inhumations: a very young infant D on its right side, flexed, facing the centre accompanied by a small southern food vessel in a roughly rectangular grave cut through the mound just into the natural chalk, east of the central grave. To the south of the central grave was a contracted burial of a child E c4 on its left side facing the centre in a rectangular grave cut through the barrow mound, laid on the natural chalk, a line of flints along its back. Burial C was probably primary, and burials A and B next. Burial D may have then taken place with the inner ditch being filled and the outer ditch dug. The inner ditch had an irregularly scraped bottom, and the outer ditch an entrance at the SSW.
14/1300bc-8/700bc	There were also: a small bucket urn let into the fill of the inner ditch in the north east quadrant; a disturbed cremation in plough soil in the south east quadrant; a disturbed cremation in the central grave fill probably associated with a type IIb globular urn. The central grave fill was thoroughly mixed - dark earth, flint, chalk, human bone fragments, 11 sherds including Beaker and Late Bronze Age sherds, and scattered traces of cremated material. This was partly owing to re-use in antiquity and partly to modern disturbance.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	578
Y coordinate	904
Bibliographic source	Bailey 1971, 1980