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Site name Berwick St John 10
Site number 1628
Burial codes 3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3033 3043 3047 3051 3065 3075 3081 3093 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a causeway ESE, and containing two (?)primary cremations just south of the centre, one with probable Late Bronze Age sherds, a stake hole, and the secondary remains of a crouched skeleton on the causeway. There were 8 secondary cremations, 4 with sherds, in pits to the south south east. There were Late Bronze Age sherds and a fragment of a bronze bangle in the ditch, perhaps from a secondary cremation.
Remains/Period Y3
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square ST
X coordinate 955
Y coordinate 176
Bibliographic source Grinsell 1957a


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