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Site name Berling Gap, Belle Tout, Eastbourne

Site number 1079

Burial codes 3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3081 3091 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3154 3159 3160 3161 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A barrow with a mound of large flints covering an inner mound of fine red loam, which in turn covered a second flint layer, then a thin earth layer, then a third dome of flint c1.8m wide x 0.8m high. This dome covered a small inverted bucket urn showing signs of intense heat which was embedded in red loam, and contained two or three small cremated bones, the other cremated bones lying separate. A pavement of flints formed the base of the innermost cairn, and the excavator thought they might have been used for the pyre base..

Remains/Period Y3

County Sussex

Region SE

National grid square TV

X coordinate 558

Y coordinate 965

Bibliographic source Giddy 1814, Mitchell-Whitley 1893, Musson 1954

Query

Site name	Berling Gap, Belle Tout, Eastbourne
Site number	1079
Burial codes	3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3081 3091 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3154 3159 3160 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A barrow with a mound of large flints covering an inner mound of fine red loam, which in turn covered a second flint layer, then a thin earth layer, then a third dome of flint c1.8m wide x 0.8m high. This dome covered a small inverted bucket urn showing signs of intense heat which was embedded in red loam, and contained two or three small cremated bones, the other cremated bones lying separate. A pavement of flints formed the base of the innermost cairn, and the excavator thought they might have been used for the pyre base..
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Sussex
Region	SE
National grid square	TV
X coordinate	558
Y coordinate	965
Bibliographic source	Giddy 1814, Mitchell-Whitley 1893, Musson 1954