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Site name King's Play Down, Heddington G3

Site number 88

Burial codes 5001 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5042 5046 5052 5053 5065 5075 5084 5091 5101 5111 5112 5128 5142 5151 5152 5167 5181

3500bc - 2500bc An earthen long barrow oriented ENE built on an old turf line with chalk rubble excavated from side ditches. Two axial holes 4.5m apart, and a trench across the barrow width at the east end. To the south of the axis and bracketed by the axial holes was a contracted single male inhumation laid on the original ground surface surrounded by remains of turf and traces of 'decayed wood or charcoal'. Probably this was a burial in an axial mortuary house.

Remains/Period Y5

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 10

Y coordinate 660

Bibliographic source Cunnington M E 1909b, Ashbee 1970

Query

Site name	King's Play Down, Heddington G3
Site number	88
Burial codes	5001 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5042 5046 5052 5053 5065 5075 5084 5091 5101 5111 5112 5128 5142 5151 5152 5167 5181
3500bc - 2500bc	An earthen long barrow oriented ENE built on an old turf line with chalk rubble excavated from side ditches. Two axial holes 4.5m apart, and a trench across the barrow width at the east end. To the south of the axis and bracketed by the axial holes was a contracted single male inhumation laid on the original ground surface surrounded by remains of turf and traces of 'decayed wood or charcoal'. Probably this was a burial in an axial mortuary house.
Remains/Period	Y5
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	10
Y coordinate	660
Bibliographic source	Cunnington M E 1909b, Ashbee 1970