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Site name Chedworth 4, Chedworth Woods
Site number 1426
Burial codes 3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3084 3098 3102 3111 3121 3143 3152 3156 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc A round barrow enclosed by a ditch and outer bank, containing a primary cist of 4 wall slabs c0.9m x 0.6m x 0.3m deep. This held a plain bipartite Late Bronze Age urn with burnt bones, reportedly female. A dark blue glass bead with 4 eyes in blue and white may have come from this barrow.
Remains/Period Y3
County Gloucestershire
Region SW
National grid square SP
X coordinate 51
Y coordinate 139
Bibliographic source Bird 1877, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960


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