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Site name Bromham 2, Oliver's Camp
Site number 619
Burial codes 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181 3001 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a primary cremation in a central oval pit accompanied by a broken incense cup and an unburnt bone button of conical shape. Large chalk lumps covered the interment. Above this was a 'fire hole' or hearth, and a 1.2m wide spread of charcoal over and around it containing some calcined human teeth but no bone, the charcoal spreading to the east of the centre. The barrow appears to have contained a primary cremation with a secondary cremation carried out before the mound had been built.
14/1300bc-8/700bc To the south of centre there were one complete and two broken straight-sided plain coarse urns possibly of the Late Bronze Age, the complete one containing the cremated bones of a middle aged adult.
Remains/Period Y4 Y3
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 0
Y coordinate 646
Bibliographic source Cunnington M E 1908


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