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Site name | Winterslow 20, Easton Down |
Site number | 647 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4007 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4045 4051 4052 4053 4065 4073 4084 4092 4096 4104 4111 4124 4143 4152 4153 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow on the site of Beaker 'dwelling pits' surrounding the Easton Down flint mine shafts. The barrow mound was of chalk rubble covered with turf and earth with flint. The ditch was square in section, and silts suggested the barrow's contemporaneity with the settlement site. Just north of centre there was a rectangular pit 1.65m x 1m x 0.3m deep, neatly cut, and containing in the south west corner a skull, facing south. Propped up against the vault of the skull and erect on its broader end was a roughly chipped bar of flint c24cm long. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Wiltshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 238 |
Y coordinate | 358 |
Bibliographic source | Stone 1931, 1934b |
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