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Site name Milton Lilbourne 4, Milton Hill Farm

Site number 447

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4053 4065 4071 4084 4091 4096 4101 4107 4124 4143 4152 4157 4181 4200

2500bc-14/1300bc A bell barrow set on ancient ploughsoil (like Milton Lilbourne 2, Site 445), and with a central cremation burial of a male c40-50 accompanied by a miniature vessel and housed in a monoxylous timber coffin oriented NNW/SSE. The burial was the focus of several related elements according to Ashbee (1986). To the south on the original surface lay a timber baulk and a smaller flat wooden object over a charcoal scatter. The scatter surrounded a rectangular reddened area, partly blanketed by a dense charcoal spread which conformed to its lineaments, with the timber coffin at its heart. The timber coffin was 0.9m x 0.3m and carved with an elongated cavity semicircular at one end and cut square at the other to the south. In it was laid a sheet of bark, and the cremation almost completely covered this sheet. The coffin had only been partially burned.

The mound was built from alternate layers of ploughsoil and occupation debris with soil (as Site 445), eight layers of each. A pit was dug into the loam core and later filled in, for what purpose is uncertain. A chalk envelope covered the mound.

RC: from loam core HAR-6455 1430 +/- 80, from the charcoal spread HAR-6453 1630 +/- 80, from timber baulk (remainder) HAR-6454 1830 +/- 80 (early heartwood rings), HAR-6457 1640 +/- 90, HAR-6458 1510 +/- 80

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 200

Y coordinate 578

Bibliographic source Ashbee 1986b

Query

Site name	Milton Lilbourne 4, Milton Hill Farm
Site number	447
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4053 4065 4071 4084 4091 4096 4101 4107 4124 4143 4152 4157 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bell barrow set on ancient ploughsoil (like Milton Lilbourne 2, Site 445), and with a central cremation burial of a male c40-50 accompanied by a miniature vessel and housed in a monoxylous timber coffin oriented NNW/SSE. The burial was the focus of several related elements according to Ashbee (1986). To the south on the original surface lay a timber baulk and a smaller flat wooden object over a charcoal scatter. The scatter surrounded a rectangular reddened area, partly blanketed by a dense charcoal spread which conformed to its lineaments, with the timber coffin at its heart. The timber coffin was 0.9m x 0.3m and carved with an elongated cavity semicircular at one end and cut square at the other to the south. In it was laid a sheet of bark, and the cremation almost completely covered this sheet. The coffin had only been partially burned. The mound was built from alternate layers of ploughsoil and occupation debris with soil (as Site 445), eight layers of each. A pit was dug into the loam core and later filled in, for what purpose is uncertain. A chalk envelope covered the mound. RC: from loam core HAR-6455 1430 +/- 80, from the charcoal spread HAR-6453 1630 +/- 80, from timber baulk (remainder) HAR-6454 1830 +/- 80 (early heartwood rings), HAR-6457 1640 +/- 90, HAR-6458 1510 +/- 80
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	200
Y coordinate	578
Bibliographic source	Ashbee 1986b