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Site name Durrington 65b, Durrington Walls Barrow
Site number 404
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A ring ditched barrow which contained a shallow central inhumation of a small contracted skeleton and a very large unornamented Beaker. The ditch contained much occupation refuse: animal bones, secondary Neolithic sherds, a flint scraper, pieces of sandstone rubber and burnt soil and flints, all presumed from a nearby Late Neolithic settlement. The ditch was dug in angular fashion.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 150
Y coordinate 437
Bibliographic source Stone, Piggott and Booth 1954


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