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Site name Winterborne St Martin 5b, Rew Group

Site number 784

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4081 4084 4091 4098 4104 4108 4111 4125 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4154 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a flint cairn nucleus over a pit 2.1m x 1.2m x 1.2m deep containing an extended skeleton with a fractured urn filled with chalk rubble on the left side, and a stag antler on the right side. Above the cairn was a secondary inhumation of a child and near it an urn full of earth (a food vessel with chevron ornament). Above this was a secondary cremation in an inverted biconical urn. Below the turf was an intrusive extended inhumation with many coarse sherds. The mound above the flint cairn comprised alternating layers of brown earth and ashes and charcoal. The external covering was a thin layer of flints.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 637

Y coordinate 904

Bibliographic source Sydenham 1844, Grinsell 1959, Calkin 1966

Query

Site name	Winterborne St Martin 5b, Rew Group
Site number	784
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4081 4084 4091 4098 4104 4108 4111 4125 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4154 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a flint cairn nucleus over a pit 2.1m x 1.2m x 1.2m deep containing an extended skeleton with a fractured urn filled with chalk rubble on the left side, and a stag antler on the right side. Above the cairn was a secondary inhumation of a child and near it an urn full of earth (a food vessel with chevron ornament). Above this was a secondary cremation in an inverted biconical urn. Below the turf was an intrusive extended inhumation with many coarse sherds. The mound above the flint cairn comprised alternating layers of brown earth and ashes and charcoal. The external covering was a thin layer of flints.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	637
Y coordinate	904
Bibliographic source	Sydenham 1844, Grinsell 1959, Calkin 1966