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Site name | Winterborne St Martin 44, Eweleaze Farm (E) |
Site number | 789 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4053 4065 4071 4075 4081 4085 4098 4101 4104 4108 4111 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4161 4162 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow with two primary inhumations and a secondary cremation. The latter was of a child c5 wrapped in a woven bag of grass stems and placed in an inverted collared urn resting on a stone slab, the whole interment being 0.45m from the barrow surface. The first inhumation was in a ledged oval pit 0.7m deep in the natural chalk, oriented NS. The body was of a young male crouched on its right side, head to S, facing east, and covered with chalk rubble and nodular flints. In this filling was a quantity of bones of young children and fragments of carbonised wood. At the grave bottom was a broken ornamental food vessel accompanying the inhumation. The second inhumation was in an oval pit dug 0.9m into the natural chalk and of a male, crouched, oriented NW/SE, head to NW, facing north east, on its left side and unaccompanied. It was covered by a filling of chalk rubble and flints. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | SY |
X coordinate | 648 |
Y coordinate | 876 |
Bibliographic source | Gray and Prideaux 1905 |
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