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Site name | Chedworth 1, Chedworth Down (S) |
Site number | 339 |
Burial codes | 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4073 4075 4084 4092 4098 4103 4111 4112 4128 4143 4152 4156 4159 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | Stone built round barrow with inner and outer retaining walls. Just east of the centre was a paved stone cist 1.2m x 0.9m oriented E/W containing a primary deposit of 2 crouched skeletons, one with head to the SW, of an adult male and a younger adult female. There were no grave goods. Their skulls of were mesaticephalic (Neolithic/Beaker hybrids?). Some earlier disturbance had occurred. The barrow was constructed like Burn Ground long barrow (Site 20). |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Gloucestershire |
Region | SW |
National grid square | SP |
X coordinate | 41 |
Y coordinate | 128 |
Bibliographic source | Grimes 1960a, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960 |
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