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Site name Elkham's Grave, Wootton Common

Site number 848

Burial codes 3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3088 3091 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a mound of humus and yellow-brown sand with worn flint pebbles. There was a central (?)primary cremation with burnt earth, unaccompanied, and about 1.2m north was the base and fragments of a globular urn, on the barrow floor, and set upright at 300. Barrow disturbance may have separated the contents of the cremation and the urn.

Remains/Period Y3

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SZ

X coordinate 240

Y coordinate 980

Bibliographic source Seaby 1951

Query

Site name	Elkham's Grave, Wootton Common
Site number	848
Burial codes	3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3088 3091 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow with a mound of humus and yellow-brown sand with worn flint pebbles. There was a central (?)primary cremation with burnt earth, unaccompanied, and about 1.2m north was the base and fragments of a globular urn, on the barrow floor, and set upright at 300. Barrow disturbance may have separated the contents of the cremation and the urn.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SZ
X coordinate	240
Y coordinate	980
Bibliographic source	Seaby 1951