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Site name | Rag Copse Barrow, Hurstbourne Tarrant |
Site number | 822 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4094 4102 4111 4112 4123 4143 4152 4153 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow with to the south of centre a roughly rectangular pit 1.8m x 0.9m oriented EW, containing near the centre finely crushed cremated bone of an adult female set upon an oval pad of dark loam (possibly a turf). Earth and flints covered the cremation deposit, and a small bronze knife was laid just above the level of the layer of cremated bone and c0.3m to the south east. The whole pit was filled with flints. A small oak charcoal and dark soil patch was near the south east edge of the pit, and a roughly crescentic charcoal scatter 0.9m long spread SW/NE 0.3m south of this patch. Around the burial pit was an irregular earthen bank, crescent shaped, mouth to the north east. Covering this was a cairn of flints, larger ones above the burial pit, possibly joining with a more northern cairn heap. Embracing the south and west perimeters of the south cairn was a banked up crescent of mixed weathered chalk and loam. There were few scattered sherds and some animal bones (mainly young animals), the former including an Abercromby Type 3 food vessel rim, from the bottom of the chalk/clay crescent. The barrow surface soil contained much Romano-British pottery. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Hampshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 362 |
Y coordinate | 522 |
Bibliographic source | Knocker 1963 |
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