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Site name Handley 1
Site number 693
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4163 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow containing at the centre a wooden boat-shaped coffin cut out of the trunk of a tree and containing a cremation. The coffin appeared to be designed to take a crouched burial. The rounded bows pointed ESE. The barrow mound contained a flint knife, a half-formed flint axe, 595 flint flakes, 4 worn pebbles and several pot sherds.
Remains/Period Y4
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square ST
X coordinate 972
Y coordinate 179
Bibliographic source Pitt-Rivers 1888, Grinsell 1959


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