Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

Background to the Gazetteer | Table of Contents

Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Buckskin II Estate, Site I

Site number 1450

Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4141 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bell barrow with the following sequence and features: (i) 10 large pits containing only a thin silt layer and hard back filled chalk; (ii) 2 concentric stake circles of 33 and 42 stake holes respectively were driven through the pits and the stakes withdrawn before the erection of the mound (parts of three outer stake circles were on a different centre (iii) the mound was of three parts, topsoil with clay, turf, and chalk capping. A small pit on the berm contained charcoal and cremated bone fragments, and a heap of cremated bone was in the chalk capping. Throughout the mound and capping was Bronze Age pottery including primary series collared urn sherds. Other finds included a barbed and tanged flint arrow head in the mound, flint scrapers from the topsoil and a saddle quern in the primary ditch silt with Iron Age sherds above.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 135

Y coordinate 262

Bibliographic source Glover 1967, 1968

Query

Site name	Buckskin II Estate, Site I
Site number	1450
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4141 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bell barrow with the following sequence and features: (i) 10 large pits containing only a thin silt layer and hard back filled chalk; (ii) 2 concentric stake circles of 33 and 42 stake holes respectively were driven through the pits and the stakes withdrawn before the erection of the mound (parts of three outer stake circles were on a different centre (iii) the mound was of three parts, topsoil with clay, turf, and chalk capping. A small pit on the berm contained charcoal and cremated bone fragments, and a heap of cremated bone was in the chalk capping. Throughout the mound and capping was Bronze Age pottery including primary series collared urn sherds. Other finds included a barbed and tanged flint arrow head in the mound, flint scrapers from the topsoil and a saddle quern in the primary ditch silt with Iron Age sherds above.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	135
Y coordinate	262
Bibliographic source	Glover 1967, 1968