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Site name Rockbourne Down, Duck's Nest Cottages

Site number 837

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4037 4042 4044 4045 4051 4052 4053 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4102 4111 4124 4142 4153 4171 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A post circle (?) of 3.3m diameter with the skull of a (?)female deliberately deposited in the post hole (P1) in the south west quadrant. The skull had been exposed previously and not placed when fleshed. There were some flint nodules above and below the skull, and one flint nodule below was naturally shaped as a human figurine. Two pottery fragments were found, one in P1 and one in P2, probably but not certainly 'prehistoric'. The post circle (each hole empty of its post) may have been a mortuary hut or enclosure. P2 also contained a fossil echinoid.

Remains/Period Y4

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 101

Y coordinate 203

Bibliographic source Saunders 1979

Query

Site name	Rockbourne Down, Duck's Nest Cottages
Site number	837
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4037 4042 4044 4045 4051 4052 4053 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4102 4111 4124 4142 4153 4171 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A post circle (?) of 3.3m diameter with the skull of a (?)female deliberately deposited in the post hole (P1) in the south west quadrant. The skull had been exposed previously and not placed when fleshed. There were some flint nodules above and below the skull, and one flint nodule below was naturally shaped as a human figurine. Two pottery fragments were found, one in P1 and one in P2, probably but not certainly 'prehistoric'. The post circle (each hole empty of its post) may have been a mortuary hut or enclosure. P2 also contained a fossil echinoid.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	101
Y coordinate	203
Bibliographic source	Saunders 1979