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Site name Plaitford Barrow

Site number 834

Burial codes 3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3081 3091 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3151 3154 3161 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a shallow outer ditch. At the centre was a 0.9m high cairn of clay, sand and pebbles of sugar loaf shape, 2.4m in diameter at the base. It rested on a low heap of soft grey sand blackened at the surface, and covering 2 urns side by side just south of the centre. The whole of this cairn was pierced to the top of the grey sand heap by a vertical central post hole containing the remains of charred wood. The cairn was covered by a mound of pebbly sand which contained no further interments. The urns were inverted and covered cremations. One urn was globular (degenerate) and the other a bucket urn.

Remains/Period Y3

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 270

Y coordinate 190

Bibliographic source Preston and Hawkes 1933

Query

Site name	Plaitford Barrow
Site number	834
Burial codes	3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3081 3091 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3151 3154 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow with a shallow outer ditch. At the centre was a 0.9m high cairn of clay, sand and pebbles of sugar loaf shape, 2.4m in diameter at the base. It rested on a low heap of soft grey sand blackened at the surface, and covering 2 urns side by side just south of the centre. The whole of this cairn was pierced to the top of the grey sand heap by a vertical central post hole containing the remains of charred wood. The cairn was covered by a mound of pebbly sand which contained no further interments. The urns were inverted and covered cremations. One urn was globular (degenerate) and the other a bucket urn.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	270
Y coordinate	190
Bibliographic source	Preston and Hawkes 1933