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Site name | Swell 5, Cow Common (W) |
Site number | 364 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4101 4111 4112 4128 4152 4153 4160 4162 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A round barrow with a primary cremation of an adult, probably male with an unburnt bone pin 14cm long on top of the burnt bones. The interment had been made in a shallow pit cut into the remains of a pyre. The pin may have fastened a cloth in which the bones had been wrapped. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Gloucestershire |
Region | SW |
National grid square | SP |
X coordinate | 132 |
Y coordinate | 264 |
Bibliographic source | Greenwell 1877, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960, Darvill and Grinsell 1989 |
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