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Site name Long Crichel 20
Site number 722
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4047 4051 4065 4075 4085 4092 4098 4104 4108 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow without a ditch covering three roughly scraped out pits. The central pit contained a cremation of a young child with fragments of an Early/Middle Bronze Age urn in the surrounding soil. The second 0.3m to the south was empty. The third 0.3m further south again contained a few fragments of unburnt bone, probably of a male.
Remains/Period Y4
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square ST
X coordinate 960
Y coordinate 105
Bibliographic source Piggott and Piggott 1944


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