Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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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 Holdenhurst

Site number 69

Burial codes 5002 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5031 5036 5042 5048 5051 5053 5065 5075 5084 5091 5098 5104 5111 5128 5143 5151 5152 5181

3500bc - 2500bc Long barrow oriented NNW. Small primary oval mound oriented SE/NW made of sand with turf and charcoal, covering pink and gray traces (of bone?) in stained floor, possibly a mortuary area. A pit contained calcined flints. There were two charcoal patches. Soil acidity destroyed any bone.

The secondary mound was rectangular, with a core of conical loam dumps covered by sand and capped by gravel and turf bonded to a vertical revetment of peat and turf sods, reinforced by brushwood panels. There was a ditch of U-shape opening NNW, in which were found primary plain bowl sherds and flintwork especially at the NNW terminal. In the secondary ditch silts was a succession of Mortlake and Beaker sherds and flintwork, especially at the NNW terminal.

Remains/Period Y5

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SZ

X coordinate 120

Y coordinate 946

Bibliographic source Piggott 1937, Kinnes 1992

Query

Site name	Holdenhurst
Site number	69
Burial codes	5002 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5031 5036 5042 5048 5051 5053 5065 5075 5084 5091 5098 5104 5111 5128 5143 5151 5152 5181
3500bc - 2500bc	Long barrow oriented NNW. Small primary oval mound oriented SE/NW made of sand with turf and charcoal, covering pink and gray traces (of bone?) in stained floor, possibly a mortuary area. A pit contained calcined flints. There were two charcoal patches. Soil acidity destroyed any bone. The secondary mound was rectangular, with a core of conical loam dumps covered by sand and capped by gravel and turf bonded to a vertical revetment of peat and turf sods, reinforced by brushwood panels. There was a ditch of U-shape opening NNW, in which were found primary plain bowl sherds and flintwork especially at the NNW terminal. In the secondary ditch silts was a succession of Mortlake and Beaker sherds and flintwork, especially at the NNW terminal.
Remains/Period	Y5
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SZ
X coordinate	120
Y coordinate	946
Bibliographic source	Piggott 1937, Kinnes 1992