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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 Handley 3

Site number 695

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4160 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow comprising a small mound of nodular flints over a sickle shaped deposit of ashes. The excavator suggested that the body had been cremated there and the bones had been scraped out to deposit elsewhere, the pyre remains being covered by the flint mound. There were 45 flint flakes.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 972

Y coordinate 179

Bibliographic source Pitt-Rivers 1888, Grinsell 1959

Query

Site name	Handley 3
Site number	695
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4160 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow comprising a small mound of nodular flints over a sickle shaped deposit of ashes. The excavator suggested that the body had been cremated there and the bones had been scraped out to deposit elsewhere, the pyre remains being covered by the flint mound. There were 45 flint flakes.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	972
Y coordinate	179
Bibliographic source	Pitt-Rivers 1888, Grinsell 1959