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Site name Bincombe 11, Ridgeway Hill

Site number 663

Burial codes 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4101 4104 4105 4108 4109 4110 4128 4129 4143 4151 4152 4153 4156 4181 2001 2005 2022 2023 2025 2028 2030 2035 2042 2046 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2129 2143 2152 2153 2181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with an inner retaining circular wall of rough stones containing 8 inhumation burials. The primary burials (Nos 6 and 7) were in the north east quadrant just within the wall, and set below the original turf line. They were crouched, close to each other and No 7 (an adult male) was associated with a Beaker bowl. No 6 was dolichocephalic, as was No 3, an adult male crouched secondary burial, on its left side, just to the north west of No 6.

No 3 was in a stone cist 0.9m x 0.9m with two coverstones. No 4 was an infant of 5-6 months in a small stone cist 0.3m x 0.3m with a five sided cover stone, no associated grave goods, in the south west quadrant and secondary. No 5 was secondary and of a young male c11 with a handled Beaker at the feet, in the south east quadrant, contracted on its right side. No 2 was of a male c18 with knees bent, feet to thighs, and doubtful whether secondary of Iron Age. No 8's position was not clear, but was of a male c6-10, crouched, on its right side and at its back was a pierced deer horn..

[The report salvaged unpublished and to some extent untraceable material from the 1922 excavation.]

8/700bc-100bc Burial No 1 was of a male, central, just below the modern ground surface with an early Iron Age 'flower-pot' vessel, and nearby a broken 8 point antler 1m long (broken by notching round). As recorded above, inhumation No 2 may have been also of this period (a male c18 with knees bent, feet to thighs).

Remains/Period Y4 Y2

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 672

Y coordinate 859

Bibliographic source Payne 1944, Whimster 1981

Query

Site name	Bincombe 11, Ridgeway Hill
Site number	663
Burial codes	4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4101 4104 4105 4108 4109 4110 4128 4129 4143 4151 4152 4153 4156 4181 2001 2005 2022 2023 2025 2028 2030 2035 2042 2046 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2129 2143 2152 2153 2181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with an inner retaining circular wall of rough stones containing 8 inhumation burials. The primary burials (Nos 6 and 7) were in the north east quadrant just within the wall, and set below the original turf line. They were crouched, close to each other and No 7 (an adult male) was associated with a Beaker bowl. No 6 was dolichocephalic, as was No 3, an adult male crouched secondary burial, on its left side, just to the north west of No 6. No 3 was in a stone cist 0.9m x 0.9m with two coverstones. No 4 was an infant of 5-6 months in a small stone cist 0.3m x 0.3m with a five sided cover stone, no associated grave goods, in the south west quadrant and secondary. No 5 was secondary and of a young male c11 with a handled Beaker at the feet, in the south east quadrant, contracted on its right side. No 2 was of a male c18 with knees bent, feet to thighs, and doubtful whether secondary of Iron Age. No 8's position was not clear, but was of a male c6-10, crouched, on its right side and at its back was a pierced deer horn.. [The report salvaged unpublished and to some extent untraceable material from the 1922 excavation.]
8/700bc-100bc	Burial No 1 was of a male, central, just below the modern ground surface with an early Iron Age 'flower-pot' vessel, and nearby a broken 8 point antler 1m long (broken by notching round). As recorded above, inhumation No 2 may have been also of this period (a male c18 with knees bent, feet to thighs).
Remains/Period	Y4 Y2
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	672
Y coordinate	859
Bibliographic source	Payne 1944, Whimster 1981