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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Landford Barrow, Landford Common, Plaitford

Site number 825

Burial codes 3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3083 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3173 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A ditchless bowl barrow with a mound of white sand covered by an even black sand stratum layer under a hard gravel capping (the main barrow mass). There were two levels of urn deposits, one standing in the black sand layer and packed about with the gravel capping, and the other set in the gravel capping and largely denuded. The lower level held 18 urns all but two inverted and covering cremations, the two upright being empty. The gravel had been scorched by the hot deposited ashes. The urns were mostly in the SSW/ENE sector, with 2 at the north. The urns included predominantly bucket types, flower pot type, globular, and a squat barrel urn. The upper level was too destroyed to be of record.

Remains/Period Y3

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 260

Y coordinate 180

Bibliographic source Preston 1929, Preston and Hawkes 1933

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Site name	Landford Barrow, Landford Common, Plaitford
Site number	825
Burial codes	3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3083 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3173 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A ditchless bowl barrow with a mound of white sand covered by an even black sand stratum layer under a hard gravel capping (the main barrow mass). There were two levels of urn deposits, one standing in the black sand layer and packed about with the gravel capping, and the other set in the gravel capping and largely denuded. The lower level held 18 urns all but two inverted and covering cremations, the two upright being empty. The gravel had been scorched by the hot deposited ashes. The urns were mostly in the SSW/ENE sector, with 2 at the north. The urns included predominantly bucket types, flower pot type, globular, and a squat barrel urn. The upper level was too destroyed to be of record.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	260
Y coordinate	180
Bibliographic source	Preston 1929, Preston and Hawkes 1933