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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 Bishops Cannings 61, Roughridge Hill

Site number 503

Burial codes 5005 5021 5023 5026 5028 5030 5036 5053 5153 5184 4005 4007 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4109 4110 4111 4129 4143 4152 4162 4181

3500bc - 2500bc A bowl barrow, and to the north of its ditch and cut by it was a large Neolithic pit containing black ashy material, Windmill Hill sherds, flint core, half a perforated flint block, flakes, bone pins, a stone bead, chalk, burnt and unburnt bone and burnt antlers.

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow covering a central cremation associated with coarse and fine potsherds and two bone pins, one of which was tinged with bronze. There were two secondary inhumations, one of an adult on its back, the second of an infant crouched on the left side. The north ditch cut a large Neolithic pit described under 3500-2500 bc.

Remains/Period Y4 N5

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 59

Y coordinate 660

Bibliographic source Thurnam 1860b, 1871, Proudfoot 1965, Anon 1965

Query

Site name	Bishops Cannings 61, Roughridge Hill
Site number	503
Burial codes	5005 5021 5023 5026 5028 5030 5036 5053 5153 5184 4005 4007 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4109 4110 4111 4129 4143 4152 4162 4181
3500bc - 2500bc	A bowl barrow, and to the north of its ditch and cut by it was a large Neolithic pit containing black ashy material, Windmill Hill sherds, flint core, half a perforated flint block, flakes, bone pins, a stone bead, chalk, burnt and unburnt bone and burnt antlers.
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow covering a central cremation associated with coarse and fine potsherds and two bone pins, one of which was tinged with bronze. There were two secondary inhumations, one of an adult on its back, the second of an infant crouched on the left side. The north ditch cut a large Neolithic pit described under 3500-2500 bc.
Remains/Period	Y4 N5
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	59
Y coordinate	660
Bibliographic source	Thurnam 1860b, 1871, Proudfoot 1965, Anon 1965