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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 Upton Scudamore 1

Site number 591

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4073 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4153 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a primary interment of a cremation in an upright urn standing on the barrow floor on which was a layer of wood ash, the urn being c1m from the centre of this. About 2.4m high in the barrow mound was the interment of a skeleton oriented EW in a wooden coffin of plank or tree trunk accompanied by a bronze dagger.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 865

Y coordinate 472

Bibliographic source Hoare 1812

Query

Site name	Upton Scudamore 1
Site number	591
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4073 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a primary interment of a cremation in an upright urn standing on the barrow floor on which was a layer of wood ash, the urn being c1m from the centre of this. About 2.4m high in the barrow mound was the interment of a skeleton oriented EW in a wooden coffin of plank or tree trunk accompanied by a bronze dagger.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	865
Y coordinate	472
Bibliographic source	Hoare 1812