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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 5j, Net Down

Site number 486

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4053 4053 4065 4074 4075 4084 4093 4098 4103 4107 4108 4110 4111 4121 4124 4128 4143 4152 4153 4154 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A probable bell barrow with a central cremation of an adult male in a pit (Pit 1) cut into the old ground surface.

Pits 4 (north), 5 (south east) and 6 (south south west) were all carefully cut but refilled.

Pit 2 was cut into the north east ditch base and a newly born infant interred in it. A lozenge shaped flint covered the pit, and this was covered in turn by a tiny cairn of flints among which was a horn core of bos longifrons.

Pit 3 appears to have been a secondary interment of an elderly female with a necklace around her throat of lignite, amber, seashell beads and two wooden incised decorated toggles. The body was oriented WE, contracted, facing south and set on its right side. The body was covered by a flint cairn, and the pit was dug through the chalk capping of the mound at the south south east edge.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 89

Y coordinate 449

Bibliographic source Green and Rollo-Smith 1984

Query

Site name	Shrewton 5j, Net Down
Site number	486
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4053 4053 4065 4074 4075 4084 4093 4098 4103 4107 4108 4110 4111 4121 4124 4128 4143 4152 4153 4154 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A probable bell barrow with a central cremation of an adult male in a pit (Pit 1) cut into the old ground surface. Pits 4 (north), 5 (south east) and 6 (south south west) were all carefully cut but refilled. Pit 2 was cut into the north east ditch base and a newly born infant interred in it. A lozenge shaped flint covered the pit, and this was covered in turn by a tiny cairn of flints among which was a horn core of bos longifrons. Pit 3 appears to have been a secondary interment of an elderly female with a necklace around her throat of lignite, amber, seashell beads and two wooden incised decorated toggles. The body was oriented WE, contracted, facing south and set on its right side. The body was covered by a flint cairn, and the pit was dug through the chalk capping of the mound at the south south east edge.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	89
Y coordinate	449
Bibliographic source	Green and Rollo-Smith 1984