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Site name Wellow I, Stoney Littleton, Som 1

Site number 14

Burial codes 5005 5009 5022 5023 5025 5028 5030 5033 5037 5043 5047 5051 5053 5065 5075 5085 5093 5094 5104 5111 5128 5143 5151 5152 5155 5181 4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4033 4037 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4155 4161 4181

3500bc - 2500bc Chambered long barrow, oriented SE, of the passage grave type with three pairs of side chambers and an end chamber, and an ammonite cast on the south west jamb of the entrance. In chamber A at farthest point was sorted human skeletal material ('leg and thigh bones and smaller fragments'). In B were 'confused heaps of bones and earth'. In C were ' four jaw bones...and the upper parts of two crania,...leg, thigh and arm bone, but no perfect skeleton'. In D were fragments of pottery and burnt bones. In the early passage there were fragments of bone. Two surviving skull fragments have been identified as of a male c30, and a female c35-40.

2500bc-14/1300bc One side chamber contained a secondary cremation in an urn as well as disarticulated skeletal material.

Remains/Period Y5 Y4

County Somerset

Region SW

National grid square ST

X coordinate 735

Y coordinate 572

Bibliographic source Hoare 1821, Dobson 1931, Bulleid 1941, Grinsell 1971, 1973

Query

Site name	Wellow I, Stoney Littleton, Som 1
Site number	14
Burial codes	5005 5009 5022 5023 5025 5028 5030 5033 5037 5043 5047 5051 5053 5065 5075 5085 5093 5094 5104 5111 5128 5143 5151 5152 5155 5181 4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4033 4037 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4155 4161 4181
3500bc - 2500bc	Chambered long barrow, oriented SE, of the passage grave type with three pairs of side chambers and an end chamber, and an ammonite cast on the south west jamb of the entrance. In chamber A at farthest point was sorted human skeletal material ('leg and thigh bones and smaller fragments'). In B were 'confused heaps of bones and earth'. In C were ' four jaw bones...and the upper parts of two crania,...leg, thigh and arm bone, but no perfect skeleton'. In D were fragments of pottery and burnt bones. In the early passage there were fragments of bone. Two surviving skull fragments have been identified as of a male c30, and a female c35-40.
2500bc-14/1300bc	One side chamber contained a secondary cremation in an urn as well as disarticulated skeletal material.
Remains/Period	Y5 Y4
County	Somerset
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	735
Y coordinate	572
Bibliographic source	Hoare 1821, Dobson 1931, Bulleid 1941, Grinsell 1971, 1973