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Site name Gussage St Michael 21, Down Farm

Site number 691

Burial codes 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4071 4072 4073 4074 4084 4092 4094 4103 4108 4109 4110 4111 4121 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181 3005 3009 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3043 3047 3051 3065 3075 3083 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3151 3153 3161 3181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow c130m from a Bronze Age enclosure, but described as a ring ditch on excavation. A shallow pit near the centre contained chalk rubble, the circular area being defined by a ditch recut on three occasions to produce widening from 2.1m to 3.15m. Into the earlier recuts had been inserted (1) a crouched infant burial in a small pit, (2) three crouched burials, probably a male, a female and an adolescent, differently oriented. Of these three, two were from the upper fill of the south terminal of the outer recut, and the other (with two shell beads) was just outside the ditch. A post hole (?)marker was associated with this group. The latest recut contained Beaker sherds, flint work and bone, and was soon backfilled, being capped by a flint cairn ring containing sherds of Beaker and Deverel-Rimbury wares.

14/1300bc-8/700bc South east of the ditch and impinging on it was a Deverel-Rimbury cemetery of which 9 cremations (4 in upright urns) were identified, and a decayed extended inhumation whose skull was covered with flint nodules. In the ditch was a crude ring of post holes, possibly of the Deverel-Rimbury period.

Remains/Period Y4 Y3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 999

Y coordinate 145

Bibliographic source Lewis and Green 1980, Grinsell 1982a, Green 1994

Query

Site name	Gussage St Michael 21, Down Farm
Site number	691
Burial codes	4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4071 4072 4073 4074 4084 4092 4094 4103 4108 4109 4110 4111 4121 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181 3005 3009 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3043 3047 3051 3065 3075 3083 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3151 3153 3161 3181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow c130m from a Bronze Age enclosure, but described as a ring ditch on excavation. A shallow pit near the centre contained chalk rubble, the circular area being defined by a ditch recut on three occasions to produce widening from 2.1m to 3.15m. Into the earlier recuts had been inserted (1) a crouched infant burial in a small pit, (2) three crouched burials, probably a male, a female and an adolescent, differently oriented. Of these three, two were from the upper fill of the south terminal of the outer recut, and the other (with two shell beads) was just outside the ditch. A post hole (?)marker was associated with this group. The latest recut contained Beaker sherds, flint work and bone, and was soon backfilled, being capped by a flint cairn ring containing sherds of Beaker and Deverel-Rimbury wares.
14/1300bc-8/700bc	South east of the ditch and impinging on it was a Deverel-Rimbury cemetery of which 9 cremations (4 in upright urns) were identified, and a decayed extended inhumation whose skull was covered with flint nodules. In the ditch was a crude ring of post holes, possibly of the Deverel-Rimbury period.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	999
Y coordinate	145
Bibliographic source	Lewis and Green 1980, Grinsell 1982a, Green 1994