Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Shrewton 5h, Net Down

Site number 484

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4101 4111 4112 4128 4143 4152 4153 4160 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a pyre just south west of centre, and a central interment pit into which cremated bone and ash had been scraped. The almost complete bones of an adult male were recovered. There was no sign of pit upcast. The mound had a chalk cap.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 88

Y coordinate 448

Bibliographic source Green and Rollo-Smith 1984

Query

Site name	Shrewton 5h, Net Down
Site number	484
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4101 4111 4112 4128 4143 4152 4153 4160 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a pyre just south west of centre, and a central interment pit into which cremated bone and ash had been scraped. The almost complete bones of an adult male were recovered. There was no sign of pit upcast. The mound had a chalk cap.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	88
Y coordinate	448
Bibliographic source	Green and Rollo-Smith 1984