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Site name Withington II, Sale's Lot, Glo 94
Site number 28
Burial codes 5005 5009 5022 5024 5025 5028 5030 5032 5036 5043 5048 5052 5053 5065 5075 5085 5092 5098 5104 5511 5122 5124 5127 5142 5151 5152 5160 5167 5181 4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4032 4042 4046 4051 4065 4074 4085 4091 4098 4101 4107 4121 4142 4152 4181
3500bc - 2500bc Long barrow oriented SE. A single small burial chamber was enclosed by a rotunda. The chamber was empty except for a scrap of western Neolithic pottery. Forecourt covered only by loam burnt red and black. Walls showed fire damage. There were many human skeletal remains in burnt and unburnt fragments, many teeth, no skull fragments, but flint and western Neolithic pottery. It is possible that there had been a wooden mortuary house. The remains represented 18 individuals, one possibly accompanied by a leaf shaped arrow head. There were 2 shallow stone lined graves dug in the tail of the barrow, possibly contemporary as they were incorporated into the stonework forming two single graves.
2500bc-14/1300bc Beaker burial inserted into the rubble stone core of the long barrow mound, 6m north of the rotunda. An extended skeleton of a male c40 lying EW, with the broken remains of a bell Beaker at its feet. Small bronze fragments (?part of an earring) were attached to one bone.
Remains/Period Y5 Y4
County Gloucestershire
Region SW
National grid square SP
X coordinate 48
Y coordinate 158
Bibliographic source O'Neil 1966, Darvill and Grinsell 1989


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