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Site name Sturminster Marshall 1, The Shapwick Barrow

Site number 1689

Burial codes 4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4143 4151 4152 4153 4154 4159 4181 3002 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3083 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a central pit which had a floor of green sand covered by blue clay. This was filled with a layer c0.6m thick of loose gravel, fine brown earth and charcoal. Over this, and on the level of the barrow floor, was another layer of blue clay c1.9m in diameter and circular in shape, on which at the centre was a cremation accompanied by a ruby coloured barrel shaped glass bead that had been burnt.

Over the cremation deposit had been raised a flint cairn with regular strata of flints, clay and burnt matter, with a convex flint top coated over with red clay. Above this was a virtually stone free mound of heavy clay containing a considerable quantity of vegetable matter slightly impregnated with pyrites.

14/1300bc-8/700bc Pieces of moist unbaked pottery and annular patches of urn-shaped dark clay found in the eastern upper sector of the mound suggest Late Bronze Age secondary interments. At the apex of the barrow, seven large flints were set in a circle just below the modern turf.

Remains/Period Y4 Y3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 934

Y coordinate 16

Bibliographic source Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959

Query

Site name	Sturminster Marshall 1, The Shapwick Barrow
Site number	1689
Burial codes	4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4143 4151 4152 4153 4154 4159 4181 3002 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3083 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a central pit which had a floor of green sand covered by blue clay. This was filled with a layer c0.6m thick of loose gravel, fine brown earth and charcoal. Over this, and on the level of the barrow floor, was another layer of blue clay c1.9m in diameter and circular in shape, on which at the centre was a cremation accompanied by a ruby coloured barrel shaped glass bead that had been burnt. Over the cremation deposit had been raised a flint cairn with regular strata of flints, clay and burnt matter, with a convex flint top coated over with red clay. Above this was a virtually stone free mound of heavy clay containing a considerable quantity of vegetable matter slightly impregnated with pyrites.
14/1300bc-8/700bc	Pieces of moist unbaked pottery and annular patches of urn-shaped dark clay found in the eastern upper sector of the mound suggest Late Bronze Age secondary interments. At the apex of the barrow, seven large flints were set in a circle just below the modern turf.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	934
Y coordinate	16
Bibliographic source	Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959