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Site name Shrewton 5e, Net Down
Site number 481
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4048 4051 4065 4071 4074 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4108 4110 4111 4125 4128 4129 4130 4141 4152 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a very broad flat-bottomed ditch, covering a central, wide shallow pit which contained two contemporary inhumations: a contracted adult lying on its left side, oriented NS, facing east, accompanied by a Final Southern Beaker on two rounded flints behind the heels. To the east was an adolescent on its side, oriented SW/NE and facing south east. Many red deer antler fragments were in the pit fill of chalk upcast, contemporary with the antler in the primary fill of ditch 1. Three other pits were dug into the old turf line, and sealed by the turf mound, but contained only redeposited chalk. A chalk envelope sealed the turf mound. Ditch 1 was partially refilled at this stage and recut to V-shape, possibly to mark the mound's redefinition at the second interment. The second interment was cut as a small recess through the base of the first central pit, and probably contained an urned cremation.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 87
Y coordinate 446
Bibliographic source Green and Rollo-Smith 1984


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