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Site name Amesbury 72, Earls Farm Down
Site number 419
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4081 4084 4091 4098 4104 4105 4111 4121 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4154 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow overlapped by a saucer barrow. The west bowl barrow had a central inverted urn cremation burial of an immature person in a rectilinear pit. The urn would have protruded for about one third of its height and may have had a small flint mound covering it. Beneath the east saucer barrow were two cremation graves. One was in an irregular pit and comprised the cremated bones of an adult c20 or more beneath which was a bronze awl, a bone point and a shale bead. The other was immediately below a rectilinear pit, in a narrow shaft, and comprised a small quantity of burned bone (mainly skull) and long bone fragments, not necessarily human. The sides showed signs of blackening from charcoal. The penannular ditch of the saucer barrow overlapped the bowl barrow ditch with its terminals.

RC: Charcoal from ditch bottom HAR-10515 1660 +/-90, and from a natural pit HAR-10516 2120 +/-90.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 178
Y coordinate 415
Bibliographic source Ashbee 1984b, 1992


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