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Site name Winterbourne Stoke 10
Site number 609
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4071 4075 4081 4091 4098 4104 4108 4111 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with two dog skeletons deposited near the top of the mound. There was a central primary pit 1.5m x 1.2m x 0.75m deep containing two inhumations oriented NS, with at their feet a type A Beaker. There were inhumations of 6 more bodies above these and secondary, 2 of them of young persons lying almost side by side. A tertiary cremation in an inverted urn set in a cutting into the side of the original pit rested in the lap of one of the secondary inhumations.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 103
Y coordinate 419
Bibliographic source Hoare 1812


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