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Site name | Tilshead 1, Kill Barrow |
Site number | 98 |
Burial codes | 5002 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5036 5041 5046 5051 5053 5065 5075 5084 5092 5104 5111 5128 5143 5152 5159 5160 5181 |
3500bc - 2500bc | Long barrow of earth oriented SE, with a primary deposit on the floor near the south east end of several imperfectly burnt skeletons intermixed with brecchia of burnt flints, shells, and sarsen chips. A possible example of a platform cremation. |
Remains/Period | Y5 |
County | Wiltshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 0 |
Y coordinate | 478 |
Bibliographic source | Thurnam 1869, Cunnington M E 1914, Grinsell 1958b |
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