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Site name Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne 1, Canterbury
Site number 879
Burial codes 3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3084 3092 3094 3098 3104 3108 3109 3110 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3162 3173 3181 3200
14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow where no primary interment was found. There were 10 assumed secondary cremation interments, nearly all of adults, 9 laid out on or within an arc c1.8-2.1m inside the ditch on the NW side and 1 in the SE sector. Five were in Late Bronze Age urns of bucket or barrel shape (3 with perforations below the rim as if to attach a cover) for the most part tightly fitted into their respective pits, and 5 in pits only but these latter may have been in containers of wood or skin. The 12 cremation deposits examined represented 13 individuals, of whom 9 were adults, 3 immature and 1 juvenile.

Two (possibly natural) phenomena were noticed: there was a 61cm long flint embedded in the chalk surface near the centre, and the pits of cremations 9 and 10 had tight packed flints following the curve of the pots. No seams of flint were recorded in other sections.

RC: from bones in cremation 7 in the barrow HAR-1492 930 +/- 80

There were 7 cremations a few metres NE of the barrow in a group.

RC: from bones in cremation 5 in this group HAR-1493 1020 +/- 80
Remains/Period Y3
County Kent
Region SE
National grid square TR
X coordinate 192
Y coordinate 532
Bibliographic source MacPherson-Grant 1980, Grinsell 1992


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