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Site name Bincombe 60a, Ridgeway Hill

Site number 667

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4122 4125 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a central pit cut in the chalk, lined with flat stones set on edge, and covered with a large flat stone. This contained an inhumation with a deer's antler and several teeth of a large boar. At the foot of the body was an urn containing cremated bones 'of some animal, probably of the fox or badger' (Warne). Also in the urn were a triangular serrated stone spear head, a flint arrow head and a boar's tusk perforated with a hole.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 664

Y coordinate 867

Bibliographic source Sydenham 1844, Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959

Query

Site name	Bincombe 60a, Ridgeway Hill
Site number	667
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4122 4125 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a central pit cut in the chalk, lined with flat stones set on edge, and covered with a large flat stone. This contained an inhumation with a deer's antler and several teeth of a large boar. At the foot of the body was an urn containing cremated bones 'of some animal, probably of the fox or badger' (Warne). Also in the urn were a triangular serrated stone spear head, a flint arrow head and a boar's tusk perforated with a hole.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	664
Y coordinate	867
Bibliographic source	Sydenham 1844, Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959