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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 Tilshead 2, Old Ditch Barrow

Site number 99

Burial codes 5005 5009 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5036 5043 5047 5051 5065 5071 5075 5084 5093 5096 5102 5104 5111 5127 5129 5142 5152 5154 5159 5167 5181

3500bc - 2500bc A long barrow oriented ENE, containing a pile of large flints over a contracted female skeleton, head oriented N, accompanied by a roughly chipped flint. 0.6m away under another pile of flints and on a flint pavement was a heap of imperfectly burnt bones accompanied by a flint, and contemporaneous with the first inhumation. This was a possible mortuary house structure with a platform cremation. A stratum of black earth covered the interments.

Near the WNW end was a subsidiary primary deposit of three inhumations 0.45m above the floor.

Remains/Period Y5

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 23

Y coordinate 468

Bibliographic source Thurnam 1869, Cunnington M E 1914

Query

Site name	Tilshead 2, Old Ditch Barrow
Site number	99
Burial codes	5005 5009 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5036 5043 5047 5051 5065 5071 5075 5084 5093 5096 5102 5104 5111 5127 5129 5142 5152 5154 5159 5167 5181
3500bc - 2500bc	A long barrow oriented ENE, containing a pile of large flints over a contracted female skeleton, head oriented N, accompanied by a roughly chipped flint. 0.6m away under another pile of flints and on a flint pavement was a heap of imperfectly burnt bones accompanied by a flint, and contemporaneous with the first inhumation. This was a possible mortuary house structure with a platform cremation. A stratum of black earth covered the interments. Near the WNW end was a subsidiary primary deposit of three inhumations 0.45m above the floor.
Remains/Period	Y5
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	23
Y coordinate	468
Bibliographic source	Thurnam 1869, Cunnington M E 1914