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Site name Woodford 12, Heale Hill
Site number 422
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4051 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4101 4104 4105 4107 4108 4110 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4173 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A ditched bowl barrow with a mound of an inner clay, flint and chalky soil core, with some burnt material and an outer chalk envelope. The primary burial had been disturbed or robbed, and was probably a cremation in a shell tempered Wessex biconical urn in the central pit. There was other disarticulated material from the central area, in the south east and south west quadrants, of at least 4 adults and one child c10 or more.

Other deposits found were as follows: 4 adult and one child inhumation of which 3 were crouched, all at relatively short depths in the mound material, with no recorded outlines of grave pits. One was an adult c35-40, one a male c35-45, one an adult c17-25, one an adult age not deducible, and one a child c10.

Cremations were found in the barrow: the primary disturbed cremation, and a group of at least 12 cremation deposits with and without urns probably cut down through the mound. Cremations were found east of the barrow: five cremations (4 in urns) forming a secondary urnfield outside the barrow, possibly part of a larger group, contemporary with the secondary cremations around the barrow mound. The urns were of the Early/Middle Bronze Age. Of the cremation burials, 3 were adults, 2 possible adults, 1 a child, 1 a young adult, and the rest could not be identified.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 110
Y coordinate 366
Bibliographic source Gingell 1988


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