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Site name Oliver's Battery B, Winchester
Site number 1294
Burial codes 2001 2005 2021 2023 2025 2028 2030 2035 2041 2048 2051 2053 2065 2075 2084 2091 2098 2104 2111 2130 2143 2153 2161 2181
8/700bc-100bc A barrow c63m north of the Battery covered a central cremation contained in a possible Hallstatt I cinerary vessel, placed in a chalk cut pit in the barrow floor. All around the urn were sherds of some 7-8 urns seemingly broken at the deposition, a good ball of iron pyrites, and some burnt bone and charcoal.
Remains/Period Y2
County Hampshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 459
Y coordinate 279
Bibliographic source Andrew 1932, 1933, Whimster 1981


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