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Site name Ratfyn, Amesbury

Site number 1661

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4123 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A grave c2.1m x 0.6m containing two inhumations, one at the foot of the other. The first was accompanied by a stone axe head by the skull. The second was somewhat disturbed, the skull resting on the thigh bone, almost as if it had been deposited anyhow. Close to the grave on the north side was a pit filled with dark soil which contained some fragments of charcoal. On the north west side was found a Bronze Age urn containing bones, set in a shallow hole. Other excavation work discovered the trace of a possible ditch, and the site may have been a ploughed out barrow.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 159

Y coordinate 420

Bibliographic source Farrer 1920

Query

Site name	Ratfyn, Amesbury
Site number	1661
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4123 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A grave c2.1m x 0.6m containing two inhumations, one at the foot of the other. The first was accompanied by a stone axe head by the skull. The second was somewhat disturbed, the skull resting on the thigh bone, almost as if it had been deposited anyhow. Close to the grave on the north side was a pit filled with dark soil which contained some fragments of charcoal. On the north west side was found a Bronze Age urn containing bones, set in a shallow hole. Other excavation work discovered the trace of a possible ditch, and the site may have been a ploughed out barrow.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	159
Y coordinate	420
Bibliographic source	Farrer 1920