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Site name Bowcombe Down, Isle of Wight

Site number 812

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4123 4143 4152 4153 4154 4160 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow used later as an Anglo-Saxon cemetery. The primary interment was at the barrow centre (No 23) and comprised a thorough cremation and a great amount of wood ash filling a small pit, overflowing 0.6-9m beyond the pit edge. A burnt bead was the only artefact accompanying the deposit. The ash appeared to be from the pyre fired on the spot. A flint cairn 0.9m high covered the deposit. Above this cairn was a secondary cremation deposit (No 22) of clean bone brought from elsewhere accompanied by a bronze dagger 15cm above.

Remains/Period Y4

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SZ

X coordinate 459

Y coordinate 870

Bibliographic source Wilkins, Kell and Locke 1860

Query

Site name	Bowcombe Down, Isle of Wight
Site number	812
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4123 4143 4152 4153 4154 4160 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow used later as an Anglo-Saxon cemetery. The primary interment was at the barrow centre (No 23) and comprised a thorough cremation and a great amount of wood ash filling a small pit, overflowing 0.6-9m beyond the pit edge. A burnt bead was the only artefact accompanying the deposit. The ash appeared to be from the pyre fired on the spot. A flint cairn 0.9m high covered the deposit. Above this cairn was a secondary cremation deposit (No 22) of clean bone brought from elsewhere accompanied by a bronze dagger 15cm above.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SZ
X coordinate	459
Y coordinate	870
Bibliographic source	Wilkins, Kell and Locke 1860