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Site name Bower Chalke 10, Marleycombe Hill Group
Site number 519
Burial codes 3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3036 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3083 3092 3098 3104 3108 3110 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc A disturbed bowl barrow with the central pit empty. South of the centre was a well cut pit containing two barrel urns. One had stood upright and contained the cremation of a child. This had been crushed and pushed aside to accommodate a second inverted barrel urn containing several large pieces of charcoal and the cremated bones of an adult. The barrow mound earth contained flint flakes and pieces of sandstone, one used as a rubber.
Remains/Period Y3
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 23
Y coordinate 225
Bibliographic source Clay 1927b


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