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Site name Litton Cheney 3

Site number 714

Burial codes 4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4033 4042 4044 4046 4051 4052 4053 4065 4074 4084 4091 4098 4101 4105 4128 4141 4152 4153 4171 4181 3001 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3033 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3084 3091 3098 3101 3108 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a mound of brown soil and flints built on the old turf line. A wide shallow circular ditch surrounded the mound, with a causeway 0.9m wide at the SSE. The ditch was dug at two levels resulting in a step nearly opposite the causeway.

The primary burial was an extended supine inhumation of a male c22, head to W. Flint nodules partly lined the shallow central grave of this burial. Both ditch fill and mound material were the same, the ditch fill being more packed. The mound had a thin chalk capping and a central post hole reaching down to the primary burial. The chalk for the capping may have been preserved from the ditch upcast. The state of the primary burial suggested to the excavator (but not the pathologist) that the body was decomposing on burial.

14/1300bc-8/700bc There was a secondary burial of a Late Bronze Age urn packed around with large flints, some burnt, containing the cremated bones of a probable male c15 or older, set in the top of the mound just below its surface.

Remains/Period Y4 Y3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 553

Y coordinate 918

Bibliographic source Wacher 1958

Query

Site name	Litton Cheney 3
Site number	714
Burial codes	4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4033 4042 4044 4046 4051 4052 4053 4065 4074 4084 4091 4098 4101 4105 4128 4141 4152 4153 4171 4181 3001 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3033 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3084 3091 3098 3101 3108 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a mound of brown soil and flints built on the old turf line. A wide shallow circular ditch surrounded the mound, with a causeway 0.9m wide at the SSE. The ditch was dug at two levels resulting in a step nearly opposite the causeway. The primary burial was an extended supine inhumation of a male c22, head to W. Flint nodules partly lined the shallow central grave of this burial. Both ditch fill and mound material were the same, the ditch fill being more packed. The mound had a thin chalk capping and a central post hole reaching down to the primary burial. The chalk for the capping may have been preserved from the ditch upcast. The state of the primary burial suggested to the excavator (but not the pathologist) that the body was decomposing on burial.
14/1300bc-8/700bc	There was a secondary burial of a Late Bronze Age urn packed around with large flints, some burnt, containing the cremated bones of a probable male c15 or older, set in the top of the mound just below its surface.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	553
Y coordinate	918
Bibliographic source	Wacher 1958