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Site name | Winterbourne Stoke 44, Rollestone Down |
Site number | 494 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4029 4031 4043 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4009 4110 4111 4128 4131 4143 4152 4153 4181 4200 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bell barrow with penannular ditch, the opening extending from the NNW to ENE points, the ditches having rounded ends. Slightly east of the barrow centre a pit (Pit 1) had been cut measuring 0.9m x 0.6m x 0.2m deep and contained 20 fragments of cremated bone mixed with ash and loam, probably of an adult. A flint cairn covered the deposit and the cairn was sealed with a layer of turfy loam. A second pit to the north was also sealed and contained the partly dismembered carcass of a sheep, a group of foetal bones above its tail. The barrow mound was of alternate dumps of chalk and earth: the source of the chalk and the high density of the chalk nodules was hard to explain. There was grooved ware in the mound material. RC: from antler furnishing the cremation in Pit 1 HAR-4832 1810 +/- 70 |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Wiltshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 90 |
Y coordinate | 435 |
Bibliographic source | Green and Rollo-Smith 1984 |
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