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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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