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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 Bishops Cannings 76

Site number 74

Burial codes 5005 5021 5023 5025 5030 5032 5052 5053 5065 5143 5184

3500bc - 2500bc Long barrow with a trapezoidal mound oriented NE. Animal bone in and under mound, and 3 ox skulls more or less on the line of the barrow axis. Hurdling was set on the axial line, with bays, and brushwood spread horizontally between successive layers. No trace of human skeletal material, or of a mortuary structure, or of any paved burial area. There had been some previous excavation damage. After some silting, a round barrow was set on the north east end of the long barrow.

Remains/Period N5

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 67

Y coordinate 677

Bibliographic source Smith 1965a, Smith and Evans 1968, Ashbee, Smith and Evans 1979

Query

Site name	Bishops Cannings 76
Site number	74
Burial codes	5005 5021 5023 5025 5030 5032 5052 5053 5065 5143 5184
3500bc - 2500bc	Long barrow with a trapezoidal mound oriented NE. Animal bone in and under mound, and 3 ox skulls more or less on the line of the barrow axis. Hurdling was set on the axial line, with bays, and brushwood spread horizontally between successive layers. No trace of human skeletal material, or of a mortuary structure, or of any paved burial area. There had been some previous excavation damage. After some silting, a round barrow was set on the north east end of the long barrow.
Remains/Period	N5
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	67
Y coordinate	677
Bibliographic source	Smith 1965a, Smith and Evans 1968, Ashbee, Smith and Evans 1979