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Site name Winterborne St Martin 46, Eweleaze Farm (NW)
Site number 790
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4053 4065 4073 4075 4084 4092 4094 4101 4104 4105 4109 4110 4111 4123 4124 4128 4129 4143 4151 4152 4153 4154 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a turf mound capped by a chalk rubble layer. Just to the north of centre on the old ground surface was a nearly circular ring or wall of large flints. Between two of the inner flints at the north east was jammed a bronze dagger with remains of a willow wood sheath. In the northern half of the flint circle was a cremation associated with three fragments of an incense cup, and a small flint flake. About 1.8m north north west of this circle was a rectangular pit oriented NW/SE containing an inhumation of a male c18-19, crouched, on its right side, head to SE. The grave was filled with chalk rubble, and both above and below the upper edges of the grave there was a quantity of fragmentary human skeletal material including skull fragments, and many flint flakes, mixed with the chalk rubble and flint nodules. A flint cairn covered the whole grave. The body was accompanied by a handled ornamented food vessel. On the east side of the grave there was a slight ledge on which were laid three infants. Between them and the adult inhumation was a small plain food vessel. There were over 1298 flint flakes found in the mound before counting was ceased.
Remains/Period Y4
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square SY
X coordinate 646
Y coordinate 878
Bibliographic source Gray and Prideaux 1905


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