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Site name | Corfe Castle 23, The Afflington Barrow |
Site number | 680 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4071 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4156 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow with 3.6m to the south of centre a large deposit of pounded burnt bones set upon a layer of decayed vegetable substance (wood or bark). A shale ring, an oval greenstone, and a chalk flint were found near the centre also on the floor. The whole barrow floor showed extensive traces of burning, which were repeated at a level halfway between the barrow floor and apex. Higher in the mound was a stone lined cist containing a crouched inhumation on its left side, head to NW. Flint chippings and round pebbles were prevalent throughout the mound. [There were intrusive Romano-British burials in 7 cist graves 0.6m below the top of the barrow on the south side and in other locations]. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | SY |
X coordinate | 968 |
Y coordinate | 788 |
Bibliographic source | Warne 1866, Mansel-Pleydell 1882, Grinsell 1959 |
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