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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 Roundwood 1, Laverstoke

Site number 839

Burial codes 3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3036 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3084 3091 3098 3102 3111 3128 3141 3152 3153 3160 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A disc barrow with a mound containing c100 fragments of Bronze Age pottery (Beaker and urns) and a number of flint scrapers, some animal bone (sheep, pig, ox, red deer, badger, dog or wolf, and raven), and a bone implement (spatula?) in its main body, scraped up from nearby, and piled in bucket loads deducible from the lenticular section. Around the outer mound margin was cast the excavated clay and chalk rubble ditch material. The old ground surface of the barrow was burnt deep red at the centre around the burial pit. Three post holes suggested a pyre site (blackened post remains were still in the holes). The pit was dug after the cremation, was bucket shaped, contained burnt bone and charcoal, and possibly contained a female cremation.

There were 19 sherds from half an an Early Iron Age pot just above the rapid silting of the ditch. This suggests it is late in the period.

Remains/Period Y3

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 490

Y coordinate 480

Bibliographic source Crawford 1922b, Grinsell 1939c

Query

Site name	Roundwood 1, Laverstoke
Site number	839
Burial codes	3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3036 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3084 3091 3098 3102 3111 3128 3141 3152 3153 3160 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A disc barrow with a mound containing c100 fragments of Bronze Age pottery (Beaker and urns) and a number of flint scrapers, some animal bone (sheep, pig, ox, red deer, badger, dog or wolf, and raven), and a bone implement (spatula?) in its main body, scraped up from nearby, and piled in bucket loads deducible from the lenticular section. Around the outer mound margin was cast the excavated clay and chalk rubble ditch material. The old ground surface of the barrow was burnt deep red at the centre around the burial pit. Three post holes suggested a pyre site (blackened post remains were still in the holes). The pit was dug after the cremation, was bucket shaped, contained burnt bone and charcoal, and possibly contained a female cremation. There were 19 sherds from half an an Early Iron Age pot just above the rapid silting of the ditch. This suggests it is late in the period.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	490
Y coordinate	480
Bibliographic source	Crawford 1922b, Grinsell 1939c