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Site name Bishops Cannings 62a, Roughridge Hill, Bishops Cannings Down
Site number 91
Burial codes 5002 5004 5007 5022 5023 5026 5028 5030 5035 5036 5041 5048 5051 5053 5065 5075 5085 5092 5098 5104 5111 5125 5127 5143 5153 5181 4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4091 4096 4104 4111 4121 4125 4129 4141 4151 4152 4160 4181
3500bc - 2500bc 10 pre-barrow pits, 1 with a burnt antler, 1 with a few Windmill Hill sherds and bone fragments, 1 with grey ashy material, much Windmill Hill pottery, bone fragments, hazlenuts and charcoal, and at its base a smaller pit containing a cremation. One other pit contained another cremation; the others were empty.
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow covering a central cremation comprising a small deposit of burnt bone, much burnt wood and ashes, a small ornamented incense cup and a perforated bone bead. 0.6m away on the same level was a pig's jaw, and elsewhere some ox bones. There were two stake circles within the mound and traces of a rectangular structure around the central grave.
Remains/Period Y5 Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 60
Y coordinate 660
Bibliographic source Thurnam 1860b, 1871, Proudfoot 1965


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