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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 Knap Hill, Alton Priors

Site number 93

Burial codes 5001 5005 5022 5023 5025 5028 5030 5035 5036 5042 5045 5051 5053 5065 5075 5092 5096 5104 5111 5127 5143 5151 5181 5200

3500bc - 2500bc A causewayed enclosure whose ditch bottoms contained pottery fragments, flint flakes, stone, burnt flint, animal bone fragments, antler, and a human jaw bone. Most deposits were found in groups within 0.3m of the ditch bottom. There were traces of fire in two places after silting.

Some material adhering to the inner surface of a Windmill Hill sherd was identified as burnt bone. The sherd was found in the primary rubble of the causewayed ditch in Cutting III. This may have been a burial, but it is uncertain.

RC: from antler fragments in primary rubble of Ditch BM-205 2760 +/- 115, from charcoal in upper silt of Ditch BM-208 1840 +/- 130

2500bc-14/1300bc Overlap site with 3500-2500.

Remains/Period Y5 Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 122

Y coordinate 636

Bibliographic source Cunnington M E 1911, Connah 1965, 1969, Kinnes 1979

Query

Site name	Knap Hill, Alton Priors
Site number	93
Burial codes	5001 5005 5022 5023 5025 5028 5030 5035 5036 5042 5045 5051 5053 5065 5075 5092 5096 5104 5111 5127 5143 5151 5181 5200
3500bc - 2500bc	A causewayed enclosure whose ditch bottoms contained pottery fragments, flint flakes, stone, burnt flint, animal bone fragments, antler, and a human jaw bone. Most deposits were found in groups within 0.3m of the ditch bottom. There were traces of fire in two places after silting. Some material adhering to the inner surface of a Windmill Hill sherd was identified as burnt bone. The sherd was found in the primary rubble of the causewayed ditch in Cutting III. This may have been a burial, but it is uncertain. RC: from antler fragments in primary rubble of Ditch BM-205 2760 +/- 115, from charcoal in upper silt of Ditch BM-208 1840 +/- 130
2500bc-14/1300bc	Overlap site with 3500-2500.
Remains/Period	Y5 Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	122
Y coordinate	636
Bibliographic source	Cunnington M E 1911, Connah 1965, 1969, Kinnes 1979