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Site name Winterbourne Stoke 45, Greenlands Farm
Site number 430
Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4041 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4101 4107 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A round ditchless barrow with a mound of brown flint free soil, stiffer at the centre. There were patches of burnt clay and charcoal specks in the reddish soil at the mound edge. No trace existed of a chalk envelope. A flint ring 1.2-2.7m wide surrounded the mound with a gap on the south side: the flints included cores, flakes, flake-spalls, and finished tools. No flints of worked or struck type were found on the old land surface under the barrow. In the ring in two places Early Bronze Age (Beaker and pottery) sherds were found crushed into the flints above the natural chalk, one group being associated with a cluster of flakes and flake-spalls.

Pit 1 was a sub-rectangular pit oriented SSW/NNE with its north east corner at the geometric centre of the mound. It contained fragmentary and incompletely calcined human skeletal material of 2 males c50 or more and c40. The upper filling was of yellow clay and pasty chalk. A possible Late Neolithic sherd was found in the filling.

Pit 2 was a large oval pit 3.6m north east of the mound centre measuring 1.4m x 1.3m x 0.75m deep with a black-brown clay filling, purple staining, red flecks, and chalk chips and flints. In this were a few vole and bird bones, and struck flint flakes.

Pit 3 was 1.8m north of the centre, 0.6m in diameter and 0.3m deep, and filled with dark brown soil and empty of flints.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 99
Y coordinate 441
Bibliographic source Christie 1970


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