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Site name Hengistbury Head Barrow I/3
Site number 940
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4092 4098 4102 4105 4121 4123 4125 4143 4152 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a gravel and sand mound (Bushe-Fox I, Cunliffe 3) with 4-5m east of the centre and still within the mound a large Early Bronze Age collared urn of the secondary series inverted over a cremation and associated objects. The remains were of a female c20, and a tooth of a rodent (or possibly badger) and some oak charcoal were found with them. Within the urn were: a small incense cup, 3 simple perforated amber beads, two fragile cones of sheet gold decorated round the rim with three tooled lines (possibly to cover buttons), and a miniature copy of a bronze halberd with a blade of copper alloy set in a shaft of amber, with perforations for suspension. Only a few flints were recovered from this barrow.
Remains/Period Y4
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square SZ
X coordinate 170
Y coordinate 908
Bibliographic source Bushe-Fox 1911, Cunliffe 1987


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