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Site name Westbury 7, Dilton Middle Down
Site number 570
Burial codes 5002 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5035 5042 5047 5051 5065 5075 5084 5098 5104 5111 5128 5143 5152 5171 5181
3500bc - 2500bc A bowl barrow with causewayed or interrupted ditch, 'its interior corresponding in great measure with the long barrows' (Hoare 1812, 54). Among several large sarsens and flints there were 7-8 inhumations, disarticulated, lying in no order, and unaccompanied by grave goods. They were covered by excavated ditch material.
Remains/Period Y5
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square ST
X coordinate 885
Y coordinate 495
Bibliographic source Hoare 1812, Kinnes 1979


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