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Site name Collingbourne Ducis 9, Cow Down

Site number 534

Burial codes 4001 4005 4022 4024 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4045 4051 4065 4071 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4112 4124 4143 4152 4153 4154 4183 3005 3009 3022 3024 3025 3028 3030 3035 3036 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3084 3092 3094 3101 3104 3111 3128 3143 3151 3152 3159 3161 3171 3173 3181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow containing a central pit dug into the chalk subsoil and oriented NNW/SSE, with an inhumation of an adult on its right side, head to NW, crouched, with well preserved bones but without its right arm and without hands. It was accompanied by a small coarse potsherd near the head. The body had been covered and surrounded by large flints, and then by the original grave mound of 21m diameter.

14/1300bc-8/700bc Secondary cremations were added under an enlarged (28.8m diameter) mound in the south east quadrant. Three were in barrel urns (1 inverted containing an adult male cremation which had been placed on a mass of pounded chalk), and surrounded by dry walling of large flints. Another 10 cremations comprising burnt bone deposits were each contained within a circle of flints. These were set under the extended mound whose material contained occasional potsherds, a grinding trough fragment and 2 flint rubbers. There was a chalk capping over the mound.

Remains/Period Y4 Y3

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 229

Y coordinate 515

Bibliographic source Lukis 1867

Query

Site name	Collingbourne Ducis 9, Cow Down
Site number	534
Burial codes	4001 4005 4022 4024 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4045 4051 4065 4071 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4112 4124 4143 4152 4153 4154 4183 3005 3009 3022 3024 3025 3028 3030 3035 3036 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3084 3092 3094 3101 3104 3111 3128 3143 3151 3152 3159 3161 3171 3173 3181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow containing a central pit dug into the chalk subsoil and oriented NNW/SSE, with an inhumation of an adult on its right side, head to NW, crouched, with well preserved bones but without its right arm and without hands. It was accompanied by a small coarse potsherd near the head. The body had been covered and surrounded by large flints, and then by the original grave mound of 21m diameter.
14/1300bc-8/700bc	Secondary cremations were added under an enlarged (28.8m diameter) mound in the south east quadrant. Three were in barrel urns (1 inverted containing an adult male cremation which had been placed on a mass of pounded chalk), and surrounded by dry walling of large flints. Another 10 cremations comprising burnt bone deposits were each contained within a circle of flints. These were set under the extended mound whose material contained occasional potsherds, a grinding trough fragment and 2 flint rubbers. There was a chalk capping over the mound.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y3
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	229
Y coordinate	515
Bibliographic source	Lukis 1867