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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 Dewlish 6, Lord's Down

Site number 681

Burial codes 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4081 4083 4098 4104 4108 4111 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181 3002 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a primary chalk cut grave 1.8m long x 0.6m deep containing a (probable) type A Beaker but no recorded burial. Earth covered this, and then a layer of chalk rubble. In the latter was a child inhumation lying on top of a broken small red plain drinking cup. From a pit cut into the top of the rubble came an upright small plain urn containing a cremation. A layer of earth covered the chalk rubble which was itself in turn covered with a further chalk rubble layer. This third chalk layer contained a cremation with ashes beneath an inverted Early/Middle Bronze Age urn like an enlarged food vessel.

14/1300bc-8/700bc On the south side of this layer in a pit cut into it were two cremations beneath inverted Middle/Late Bronze Age hybrid urns, one urn being an inverted biconical type inserted on top of the other, of Cornish type.

Remains/Period Y4 Y3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 784

Y coordinate 963

Bibliographic source Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959, Calkin 1966

Query

Site name	Dewlish 6, Lord's Down
Site number	681
Burial codes	4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4081 4083 4098 4104 4108 4111 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181 3002 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a primary chalk cut grave 1.8m long x 0.6m deep containing a (probable) type A Beaker but no recorded burial. Earth covered this, and then a layer of chalk rubble. In the latter was a child inhumation lying on top of a broken small red plain drinking cup. From a pit cut into the top of the rubble came an upright small plain urn containing a cremation. A layer of earth covered the chalk rubble which was itself in turn covered with a further chalk rubble layer. This third chalk layer contained a cremation with ashes beneath an inverted Early/Middle Bronze Age urn like an enlarged food vessel.
14/1300bc-8/700bc	On the south side of this layer in a pit cut into it were two cremations beneath inverted Middle/Late Bronze Age hybrid urns, one urn being an inverted biconical type inserted on top of the other, of Cornish type.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	784
Y coordinate	963
Bibliographic source	Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959, Calkin 1966