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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Long Crichel 18

Site number 721

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4042 4044 4046 4052 4053 4065 4071 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4162 4168 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a mound of flint and soil, and a central oval grave oriented NNE, filled with yellow clay and flints and with a platform of chalk rubble along the east side at the base, the other half having been disturbed. A crouched interment was placed on the platform on its left side, facing E. The position of the bones suggests that the body had been half decomposed then tightly bound and placed in a bag before deposition. The disturbance seems to have taken place before the mound was built, or mixing of the mound and pit fill would have occurred.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 961

Y coordinate 107

Bibliographic source Piggott and Piggott 1944

Query

Site name	Long Crichel 18
Site number	721
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4042 4044 4046 4052 4053 4065 4071 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4162 4168 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a mound of flint and soil, and a central oval grave oriented NNE, filled with yellow clay and flints and with a platform of chalk rubble along the east side at the base, the other half having been disturbed. A crouched interment was placed on the platform on its left side, facing E. The position of the bones suggests that the body had been half decomposed then tightly bound and placed in a bag before deposition. The disturbance seems to have taken place before the mound was built, or mixing of the mound and pit fill would have occurred.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	961
Y coordinate	107
Bibliographic source	Piggott and Piggott 1944