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Site name Market Lavington 2, Freeth Farm
Site number 636
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4083 4091 4098 4104 4111 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4160 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a mound of reddish ferrugineous sand and a central cremation interred in a Middle Bronze Age collared urn. A funeral pyre had been lit in the centre of the barrow floor and an area of charcoal and bone fragments remained. The cinerary urn was set in a 0.2m deep hole, its mouth level with the pyre ashes, and full of burnt bones and sand. A flint knife was among the burnt bone.

There were two secondary cremations: one 1.2m above the barrow floor, a small compact deposit of clean burnt bone; the other was bone mixed with charcoal. Above the latter was another cremation fire site in the mound containing some bone ash. The mound itself contained much scattered charcoal, some flints and three pieces of Bronze Age pottery.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square ST
X coordinate 999
Y coordinate 564
Bibliographic source Cunnington M E 1926c


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