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Site name Long Bredy 5, RCHM 9a

Site number 715

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4024 4025 4028 4030 4032 4033 4034 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4101 4104 4105 4107 4108 4110 4111 4128 4143 4152 4154 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a multi-phase chalk mound and a flint cairn core of oval shape oriented EW. The primary chalk mound was surrounded by a Phase I roughly circular U-profile ditch with three causeways in the south west quadrant. A second encircling ditch was dug in a Phase II extension with a shallow profile and an entrance due west. Two further roughly encircling ditches were added later.

In a central pit under a flint cairn were three intermingled inhumation burial groups. Burial 1 was of an adult male c20-30, and secondary. Burial 2 was mainly the remains of an adult male c35-45 with Wormian bones mixed with the fragments of 2 children c10 and c5, and secondary. Burial 3 was primary, and comprised a child c10 with some fragments of those in Burial 2, and fragments of another adult, and nearby the burial of a child c5, fragments from which also appeared in Burial 2. In the central cairn there were fragments of bones of all these burials bar Burial 1, and cremated bone of an adult. All were disturbed by a large pit dug at the centre.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 570

Y coordinate 914

Bibliographic source Eogan 1978

Query

Site name	Long Bredy 5, RCHM 9a
Site number	715
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4024 4025 4028 4030 4032 4033 4034 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4101 4104 4105 4107 4108 4110 4111 4128 4143 4152 4154 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a multi-phase chalk mound and a flint cairn core of oval shape oriented EW. The primary chalk mound was surrounded by a Phase I roughly circular U-profile ditch with three causeways in the south west quadrant. A second encircling ditch was dug in a Phase II extension with a shallow profile and an entrance due west. Two further roughly encircling ditches were added later. In a central pit under a flint cairn were three intermingled inhumation burial groups. Burial 1 was of an adult male c20-30, and secondary. Burial 2 was mainly the remains of an adult male c35-45 with Wormian bones mixed with the fragments of 2 children c10 and c5, and secondary. Burial 3 was primary, and comprised a child c10 with some fragments of those in Burial 2, and fragments of another adult, and nearby the burial of a child c5, fragments from which also appeared in Burial 2. In the central cairn there were fragments of bones of all these burials bar Burial 1, and cremated bone of an adult. All were disturbed by a large pit dug at the centre.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	570
Y coordinate	914
Bibliographic source	Eogan 1978