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Site name Box 4, Totney Hill, Kingsdown

Site number 1295

Burial codes 4002 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4043 4045 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4127 4128 4143 4151 4152 4160 4181 1002 1005 1022 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1036 1042 1045 1051 1065 1075 1084 1085 1092 1098 1104 1108 1111 1128 1143 1153 1181

2500bc-14/1300bc A barrow with a the centre a number of heavy stones of local type lying in their natural position in the brash and with evidence of considerable burning on their surfaces. Near them scattered in the remains of the mound material were pieces of charcoal and many small fragments of unburnt human bone including 220 teeth, and pottery, all in greater quantity on the south side and extending for 3m. There was also evidence for cremated bone, some mixed with the unburnt remains, and assumed to be the primary cremation in the light of a few Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age maggot decorated sherds among the pottery fragments disturbed by the later inhumations.

The mound had flint, sherds, and animal bone in its make-up.

100bc-AD43 There were secondary deposits representing at least 11 very fragmented inhumation burials of 10 adults and a child. There were large associated deposits of Late Iron Age pottery, one pot broken in situ, the others brought in broken.

Remains/Period Y4 Y1

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 813

Y coordinate 678

Bibliographic source Shaw-Mellor 1935, Hawkes and Hawkes 1935, Whimster 1981

Query

Site name	Box 4, Totney Hill, Kingsdown
Site number	1295
Burial codes	4002 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4043 4045 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4127 4128 4143 4151 4152 4160 4181 1002 1005 1022 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1036 1042 1045 1051 1065 1075 1084 1085 1092 1098 1104 1108 1111 1128 1143 1153 1181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A barrow with a the centre a number of heavy stones of local type lying in their natural position in the brash and with evidence of considerable burning on their surfaces. Near them scattered in the remains of the mound material were pieces of charcoal and many small fragments of unburnt human bone including 220 teeth, and pottery, all in greater quantity on the south side and extending for 3m. There was also evidence for cremated bone, some mixed with the unburnt remains, and assumed to be the primary cremation in the light of a few Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age maggot decorated sherds among the pottery fragments disturbed by the later inhumations. The mound had flint, sherds, and animal bone in its make-up.
100bc-AD43	There were secondary deposits representing at least 11 very fragmented inhumation burials of 10 adults and a child. There were large associated deposits of Late Iron Age pottery, one pot broken in situ, the others brought in broken.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y1
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	813
Y coordinate	678
Bibliographic source	Shaw-Mellor 1935, Hawkes and Hawkes 1935, Whimster 1981