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Site name | Handley 4 |
Site number | 696 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4124 4143 4152 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow with an empty oblong grave 3.6m x 2.7m x 1.5m deep in the old ground surface. Above the grave and within its area was a cremation and beside it a worked 'thumb' flint. In the mound was a small fragment of ornamented drinking vessel and 4 other sherds, 167 flints, and 72 flint cores. |
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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