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Site name Figheldean 16, Syrencot Down, Hawley No 8
Site number 623
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4101 4104 4105 4106 4123 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4169 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow containing a pit 2.4m x 1.1m x 1.2m deep with an adult male c30 buried full length. He had been of poor body development and at the feet were remains of a small plain pot of coarse gritty ware. Under the skull was a fine flat bronze dagger. The body had been laid on some vegetable matter or buried in cloth or skins as a deposit of brown matter was observable all over the pit bottom. A secondary cremation deposit of a person c20, imperfectly burnt, was 0.6m above the pit in a bowl-shaped recess in the loose chalk of the barrow mound.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 191
Y coordinate 475
Bibliographic source Hawley 1910


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