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Site name | Roundway 5b, Roundway Hill |
Site number | 550 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4112 4122 4123 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow with a primary cremation of an adult in a pit 1.7m x 0.75m x 0.6m deep oriented WSW/ENE with a long ledge or step on the north side. With the cremation were 2 neatly grooved whetstones, a larger whetstone, a flat piece of sandstone, a flint barbed and tanged arrow head, a flint knife, flint flakes, a bronze dagger with remains of a sheath, a deer's horn needle, a deer's horn (?)handle, 3 pieces of worked bone including a possible spatula and an imported quartz pebble. Flints and potsherds were in the pit infill. The mound contained numerous fragments of pottery, and bones of sheep and ox; a small iron spike was also found. There was a disturbed secondary interment near the mound surface, unaccompanied by grave goods. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Wiltshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 15 |
Y coordinate | 648 |
Bibliographic source | Cunnington W 1860a |
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