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Site name Chaldon Herring 15

Site number 677

Burial codes 3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3091 3098 3101 3105 3128 3143 3152 3161 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a ditch lined with small flints in a thin layer, and with a narrow channel running in the base. The thin layer also contained small waste flakes, sherds of very crushed Bronze Age pottery and flint cores, and was set directly in the subsoil. The mound had a turf core with an earthen envelope. The centre deposit had been disturbed, originally comprising an inverted bucket urn packed about with flints and containing cremated bone of a young adult male.

Remains/Period Y3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 784

Y coordinate 813

Bibliographic source White 1974b

Query

Site name	Chaldon Herring 15
Site number	677
Burial codes	3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3091 3098 3101 3105 3128 3143 3152 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow with a ditch lined with small flints in a thin layer, and with a narrow channel running in the base. The thin layer also contained small waste flakes, sherds of very crushed Bronze Age pottery and flint cores, and was set directly in the subsoil. The mound had a turf core with an earthen envelope. The centre deposit had been disturbed, originally comprising an inverted bucket urn packed about with flints and containing cremated bone of a young adult male.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	784
Y coordinate	813
Bibliographic source	White 1974b