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Site name Handley 26
Site number 59
Burial codes 5005 5009 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5034 5036 5042 5046 5051 5065 5072 5084 5093 5096 5101 5104 5111 5121 5128 5143 5151 5152 5159 5181
3500bc - 2500bc A bowl barrow with an irregular ditch with a broad causeway on the west side. There was a crouched male inhumation 2.55m west of the barrow centre, oriented ENE, accompanied by a jet slider. Another inhumation was in the centre of the barrow lying on 13 large flints. Some flints, sandstone fragments, burnt flint, horse and ox teeth and ox bone, and reindeer horn fragments were in the earthen mound. There were Peterborough sherds in the mound make-up, and beneath a B Beaker sherd in the ditch silting.
Remains/Period Y5
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 13
Y coordinate 173
Bibliographic source Pitt-Rivers 1898, Piggott 1936, Grinsell 1959, Kinnes 1979


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