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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Bincombe 13, Bincombe Hill

Site number 665

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4083 4093 4098 4104 4108 4110 4111 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4154 4156 4161 4169 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bell barrow containing a central primary cist with a lightly flexed female skeleton accompanied by an intact short necked Beaker, and wrapped in a shroud possibly of cloth, fastened at the neck by a bronze awl. A satellite cist contained the skeleton of a child which appeared to have been enveloped in a shroud. A satellite pit contained an unaccompanied cremation. A very large cairn had been built over these primary burials, reveted by a 0.6m high wall, 9m in diameter. This cairn contained 4 unaccompanied cremations inserted as the cairn was built. A secondary cremation was contained in an upright enlarged food vessel of massive proportions, 0.45m in diameter. A turf stack covered the cairn (which was reveted by a wall) and chalk capped the whole mound.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 674

Y coordinate 858

Bibliographic source Best 1964

Query

Site name	Bincombe 13, Bincombe Hill
Site number	665
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4083 4093 4098 4104 4108 4110 4111 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4154 4156 4161 4169 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bell barrow containing a central primary cist with a lightly flexed female skeleton accompanied by an intact short necked Beaker, and wrapped in a shroud possibly of cloth, fastened at the neck by a bronze awl. A satellite cist contained the skeleton of a child which appeared to have been enveloped in a shroud. A satellite pit contained an unaccompanied cremation. A very large cairn had been built over these primary burials, reveted by a 0.6m high wall, 9m in diameter. This cairn contained 4 unaccompanied cremations inserted as the cairn was built. A secondary cremation was contained in an upright enlarged food vessel of massive proportions, 0.45m in diameter. A turf stack covered the cairn (which was reveted by a wall) and chalk capped the whole mound.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	674
Y coordinate	858
Bibliographic source	Best 1964