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Site name Aldbourne 3, Sugar Hill Down

Site number 523

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4112 4122 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bell barrow with mound of earth and chalk (the chalk especially on the west side), but no sarsens. It had a floor thickly strewn with charcoal and wood ash, at the centre of which was an oval pit oriented NNW/SSE, 1m x 0.45m x 0.4m deep. It contained a cremated adult with a square headed perforated bone pin. The pit upcast formed a small mound just west north west of the burial. In the barrow mound material was a flint saw, 3 flint scrapers, flint chippings, and 7 potsherds including a Beaker sherd.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 249

Y coordinate 773

Bibliographic source Greenwell 1880, Goddard 1913

Query

Site name	Aldbourne 3, Sugar Hill Down
Site number	523
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4112 4122 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bell barrow with mound of earth and chalk (the chalk especially on the west side), but no sarsens. It had a floor thickly strewn with charcoal and wood ash, at the centre of which was an oval pit oriented NNW/SSE, 1m x 0.45m x 0.4m deep. It contained a cremated adult with a square headed perforated bone pin. The pit upcast formed a small mound just west north west of the burial. In the barrow mound material was a flint saw, 3 flint scrapers, flint chippings, and 7 potsherds including a Beaker sherd.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	249
Y coordinate	773
Bibliographic source	Greenwell 1880, Goddard 1913