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Site name Upton Lovell 2a
Site number 100
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4071 4075 4084 4093 4094 4103 4111 4112 4121 4122 4123 4128 4130 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow containing a near oval pit with two interments: one of a male lying on its back, head to N; the second was smaller, crouched in a sitting posture, and probably a female or child. At the feet of the larger skeleton were more than three dozen pointed and perforated bones, and near these three flint or stone axe heads and two other stones, one of which seems to have been used for sharpening points. A further whetstone was found. By the legs were some perforated boar's teeth, and several broken cup shaped flints. By the chest was a stone axe, and a circular stone with a bevelled edge, and about three dozen arrow heads of bone. A jet ring decorated on the outside with imperfect circles and with sharp inner edges was associated with one or other of the bodies. Other associated objects included pebbles and other stones of a type foreign to the neighbourhood, a small bronze pin, some jet beads and an ivory or bone bead. The smaller body appears to have been secondary from the position (higher) and from the alteration to the grave.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square ST
X coordinate 959
Y coordinate 428
Bibliographic source Cunnington W 1805a/b, Hoare 1812


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