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Site name Amesbury 67b, Earls Farm Down
Site number 1642
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4081 4092 4098 4102 4104 4107 4111 4121 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A disc barrow with a minimal deposit of a primary cremation accompanied by flint flakes and and 3 beads of chalk fossils in a shallow oval pit. 1.5m to the north west was a small pot 10cm high originally inverted.

In the north west sector 3.65m inside the ditch and in an oval pit were two crouched inhumations, of a middle aged female and one of indeterminate sex.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 181
Y coordinate 415
Bibliographic source Grinsell 1974


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