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Site name Amesbury 133, King Barrow Ridge
Site number 424
Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4032 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4081 4092 4094 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4162 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc An oval bell barrow oriented EW with the mound heavily ploughed down. At the barrow centre was a small cup-shaped pit filled with brown earth and capped with a chalk crust. It cut into a turf line covering a larger pit 1.8m in diameter and 0.6m deep containing a single Peterborough sherd and remains of an antler. The small pit was contemporary with the barrow.

In two small pits on the EW axis were primary cremation burials in inverted collared urns. One contained calcified cloth fragments. Possibly the barrow was a twin bell barrow with two small mounds raised over these cremations.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 140
Y coordinate 422
Bibliographic source Gingell 1988


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