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Site name | Shrewton 23, Rolleston Field |
Site number | 489 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4085 4092 4098 4102 4104 4105 4107 4108 4111 4122 4128 4141 4151 4152 4153 4154 4161 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A ditchless bowl barrow, with a chord of 5 post holes running NS at the west side whose posts had been removed on the building of the mound. The primary interment was west of centre and of a middle aged female, slightly crouched, oriented S, on its left side and accompanied by a rubbing stone on a turf behind the head, and a small bronze awl in the fill of turf. The mound was built immediately after interment (the pit upcast was unweathered where it lay). In post hole 5 to the north was placed the cremated remains of a young adult and some ash, then the hole was backfilled with turf in the upper part of which fill were deposited fragments of pygmy vessel. Sherds of a food vessel were found in the turf fill of post hole 3. 6m to the north east of the mound a child cremation was placed on the bare chalk, and an inverted food vessel placed over it, which was then covered by a flint cairn. Two further cremations were inserted into the mound (Pits 2 and 3), one cutting into post hole 5. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Wiltshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 90 |
Y coordinate | 442 |
Bibliographic source | Green and Rollo-Smith 1984 |
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