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Site name Poole 24, Canford Heath

Site number 735

Burial codes 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3034 3152 3153 3184 3200

14/1300bc-8/700bc A disc barrow whose mound was built of irregular clods of earth, and which was ditched only on the northern side in an arc NW-SSW with a parallel intervening low bank. An escarpment surrounded the rest of the arc of the mound SSW-NW. Just west of the mound centre a pit was dug into the old ground surface but was empty of interments or artefacts; charcoal produced HAR-2278. The pre-barrow floor produced 35 flints, the post barrow construction 2632, 99% of these from silt between the edge of the mound and the bank. The old ground surface under the mound had been cleared beforehand.

RC: charcoal from primary pit HAR-2278 1110 +/- 110

Remains/Period N3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SZ

X coordinate 19

Y coordinate 959

Bibliographic source Horsey and Shackley 1980

Query

Site name	Poole 24, Canford Heath
Site number	735
Burial codes	3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3034 3152 3153 3184 3200
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A disc barrow whose mound was built of irregular clods of earth, and which was ditched only on the northern side in an arc NW-SSW with a parallel intervening low bank. An escarpment surrounded the rest of the arc of the mound SSW-NW. Just west of the mound centre a pit was dug into the old ground surface but was empty of interments or artefacts; charcoal produced HAR-2278. The pre-barrow floor produced 35 flints, the post barrow construction 2632, 99% of these from silt between the edge of the mound and the bank. The old ground surface under the mound had been cleared beforehand. RC: charcoal from primary pit HAR-2278 1110 +/- 110
Remains/Period	N3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SZ
X coordinate	19
Y coordinate	959
Bibliographic source	Horsey and Shackley 1980