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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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