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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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