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Site name Collingbourne Kingston 19, Snail Down, The Hunter's Barrow

Site number 575

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4094 4104 4111 4122 4125 4126 4130 4143 4151 4152 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow containing a cremation on the barrow floor, comprising burned human bone and ashes piled in a small heap surrounded by a circular wreath of antlers of the red deer. In the ashes were 5 barbed and tanged flint arrow heads and a small red pebble. 1.8m above this and 0.9m from the surface in the barrow mound was deposited the burial of a small dog.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 219

Y coordinate 522

Bibliographic source Hoare 1812

Query

Site name	Collingbourne Kingston 19, Snail Down, The Hunter's Barrow
Site number	575
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4094 4104 4111 4122 4125 4126 4130 4143 4151 4152 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow containing a cremation on the barrow floor, comprising burned human bone and ashes piled in a small heap surrounded by a circular wreath of antlers of the red deer. In the ashes were 5 barbed and tanged flint arrow heads and a small red pebble. 1.8m above this and 0.9m from the surface in the barrow mound was deposited the burial of a small dog.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	219
Y coordinate	522
Bibliographic source	Hoare 1812