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Site name | Durrington 68, Woodhenge Group |
Site number | 410 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A round barrow with no sign of interment at or near the centre. A primary or subsequent primary (?)crouched skeleton was near the inner edge of the ditch at the south west. In the south west portion were many holes, one of which contained a (?)secondary cremation. The structure in this area comprised an oval or subrectangular setting of at least 27 shallow post holes aligned NW/SE, with a gap at the SE. The ring ditch had destroyed the south west line of holes. Within this structure were 4 postholes forming a square setting, the whole group considered to be Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age from associated pottery sherds, and predating the barrow as a 'timber circle'. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Wiltshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 151 |
Y coordinate | 433 |
Bibliographic source | Cunnington M E 1929, Grinsell 1957a, Pollard 1995a |
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