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Site name Winterbourne Stoke 30

Site number 455

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4045 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4093 4104 4108 4111 4128 4130 4141 4152 4154 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bell barrow whose mound by the early 20th Century had been destroyed. It had a central cremation pit, roughly circular, with some marks of fire at its upper edge. A small undisturbed heap of ash and burnt bone at the base was covered by dark humic soil. From its shape and size the cremation had been placed in a container and was a token amount, evidence suggesting the remains of an adult. There was a 4 stake hole structure 1m x 0.3m immediately west. An empty oval pit was west of the central area.

The surrounding ditch was a regular circle with virtually clean primary filling. The brown earth secondary fill contained unworked flints, one worked flint, and potsherds ranging from Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age and Roman Britain. In the south west sector of the ditch was the skeleton of a child c7 laid on the primary silt, crouched and on the left side. There was no pit, but flints laid under and over the skull could have been a protective covering. By the skull was a phallic shaped flint nodule. The inhumation was not datable and could have been intrusive. An unassociated barbed and tanged arrow head was found in the area.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 110

Y coordinate 429

Bibliographic source Hoare 1812, Christie 1963

Query

Site name	Winterbourne Stoke 30
Site number	455
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4045 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4093 4104 4108 4111 4128 4130 4141 4152 4154 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bell barrow whose mound by the early 20th Century had been destroyed. It had a central cremation pit, roughly circular, with some marks of fire at its upper edge. A small undisturbed heap of ash and burnt bone at the base was covered by dark humic soil. From its shape and size the cremation had been placed in a container and was a token amount, evidence suggesting the remains of an adult. There was a 4 stake hole structure 1m x 0.3m immediately west. An empty oval pit was west of the central area. The surrounding ditch was a regular circle with virtually clean primary filling. The brown earth secondary fill contained unworked flints, one worked flint, and potsherds ranging from Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age and Roman Britain. In the south west sector of the ditch was the skeleton of a child c7 laid on the primary silt, crouched and on the left side. There was no pit, but flints laid under and over the skull could have been a protective covering. By the skull was a phallic shaped flint nodule. The inhumation was not datable and could have been intrusive. An unassociated barbed and tanged arrow head was found in the area.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	110
Y coordinate	429
Bibliographic source	Hoare 1812, Christie 1963