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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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