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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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