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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Child Okeford II, Hambledon Hill

Site number 58

Burial codes 5002 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5042 5048 5051 5065 5075 5084 5098 5101 5104 5111 5128 5143 5152 5181

3500bc - 2500bc Long barrow oriented SE, set within the cross ditches of the south side of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure. It had been bulldozed and quarried in farming, and a large quantity of human skeletal material was found over the flanking ditches, which could have come from one adult male.

Remains/Period Y5

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 849

Y coordinate 120

Bibliographic source Erskine 1951, Mercer 1980, 1988, Kinnes 1979

Query

Site name	Child Okeford II, Hambledon Hill
Site number	58
Burial codes	5002 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5042 5048 5051 5065 5075 5084 5098 5101 5104 5111 5128 5143 5152 5181
3500bc - 2500bc	Long barrow oriented SE, set within the cross ditches of the south side of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure. It had been bulldozed and quarried in farming, and a large quantity of human skeletal material was found over the flanking ditches, which could have come from one adult male.
Remains/Period	Y5
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	849
Y coordinate	120
Bibliographic source	Erskine 1951, Mercer 1980, 1988, Kinnes 1979