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Site name Amesbury 61

Site number 418

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4053 4065 4072 4075 4084 4092 4098 4103 4104 4105 4108 4109 4110 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4153 4181 4200

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow, the mound formed of loam with a chalk capping. The loam core had horizontal streaks of chalk and flint, and patches of black greasy soil containing charcoal, numerous weathered fragments of bone, pieces of pottery and struck flint. An oval area of fine charcoal with a north lobe covered the centre of the barrow base, but there were no signs of intense burning. Stake holes both surrounded this area and occurred within it. The outer circle was irregular at the south, and the holes in the charcoal area were too irregular to suggest any possible rough rectangular arrangement. The latter stood over the elongated central pit of previous disturbance.

Within the stake circle to the north north east were two cremations, one of an adult in a matrix of dark soil, charcoal and 4-5 weathered flints, and a similar deposit of a possible female. Both pits were infilled by the loam core, so the mound was built straight after their deposition. Also within the stake circle close to these two cremations was an elongated pit oriented NNE containing the burial of a child c1, head to NE, covered with scatters of small clean pieces of chalk, and occupying only part of the pit. Loam core filled the rest of the pit. Just outside the stake circle to the NNE a flexed adult female c17-25 had been placed on the old ground surface, on the right side, head to SSE but plough disturbed, along with another adult and a child c5. Beneath these bones were patches of fire charcoal. 3m north of the stake circle in a position that forced deviation of the outer ditch, was another cremation of an adult in a deep almost cylindrical pit.

RC: HAR-6225 1600 +/- 80, HAR-6227 1570 +/- 100 from charcoal at the centre of the barrow base and pit cremation in stake circle. From cremation grave 2 HAR-10514 1340 +/- 80

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 178

Y coordinate 424

Bibliographic source Ashbee 1984b, 1992

Query

Site name	Amesbury 61
Site number	418
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4053 4065 4072 4075 4084 4092 4098 4103 4104 4105 4108 4109 4110 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4153 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow, the mound formed of loam with a chalk capping. The loam core had horizontal streaks of chalk and flint, and patches of black greasy soil containing charcoal, numerous weathered fragments of bone, pieces of pottery and struck flint. An oval area of fine charcoal with a north lobe covered the centre of the barrow base, but there were no signs of intense burning. Stake holes both surrounded this area and occurred within it. The outer circle was irregular at the south, and the holes in the charcoal area were too irregular to suggest any possible rough rectangular arrangement. The latter stood over the elongated central pit of previous disturbance. Within the stake circle to the north north east were two cremations, one of an adult in a matrix of dark soil, charcoal and 4-5 weathered flints, and a similar deposit of a possible female. Both pits were infilled by the loam core, so the mound was built straight after their deposition. Also within the stake circle close to these two cremations was an elongated pit oriented NNE containing the burial of a child c1, head to NE, covered with scatters of small clean pieces of chalk, and occupying only part of the pit. Loam core filled the rest of the pit. Just outside the stake circle to the NNE a flexed adult female c17-25 had been placed on the old ground surface, on the right side, head to SSE but plough disturbed, along with another adult and a child c5. Beneath these bones were patches of fire charcoal. 3m north of the stake circle in a position that forced deviation of the outer ditch, was another cremation of an adult in a deep almost cylindrical pit. RC: HAR-6225 1600 +/- 80, HAR-6227 1570 +/- 100 from charcoal at the centre of the barrow base and pit cremation in stake circle. From cremation grave 2 HAR-10514 1340 +/- 80
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	178
Y coordinate	424
Bibliographic source	Ashbee 1984b, 1992