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Site name Bincombe 60c
Site number 669
Burial codes 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4053 4082 4091 4143 4152 4153 4184
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a flint cairn covered by thin rough flat slabs under an earth capping. The cairn centre covered and filled a 0.9m deep pit containing a rectangular cist of 6 stone slabs 1.2m x 0.6m x 0.45m deep, containing only a food vessel laid on its side in the centre. No interments of any kind were found.
Remains/Period N4
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square SY
X coordinate 664
Y coordinate 867
Bibliographic source Sydenham 1844, Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959


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