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Site name Ogbourne St Andrew 6
Site number 637
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4073 4083 4085 4098 4101 4104 4105 4107 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4156 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with an (?)external vallum to the ditch, and a mound of clayey soil, chalk rubble and flints. This covered a cairn of very large sarsen blocks c6m in diameter, and 1.8m high at the centre. The primary interment was in a pit cut into the chalk in oval shape 1.8m x 1.2m x 1.05m deep, and lined with flat sarsen stones. It contained the skeleton of an adult male over middle age, on its right side, crouched, head to S. On the old ground surface and over this cist were two interments of urns, upright, in stone lined cists contemporary with the sarsen cairn. A large collared urn contained the bones of a young adult, slightly burnt; a smaller urn contained much wood ash and human bone of a person of undefinable sex or age. A third food vessel seems to have been broken before being deposited.
Remains/Period Y4
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 165
Y coordinate 725
Bibliographic source Cunnington H 1881


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