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Site name Handley 23, Handley Hill

Site number 700

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4072 4081 4085 4091 4098 4104 4111 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a central cremation interred in a circular pit. There were two secondary cremations, one 3.45m to the south east in an inverted Early to Middle Bronze Age collared urn in a pit. The second collared urn was 3.75m to the north east and broken, the bones mixed in with the sherds. About 6m to the north of the central cremation was a crouched interment oriented NE with a bronze awl at the top of the skull. The mound material contained a few sherds, 54 flint flakes, 13 burnt flints, 12 sandstone flints and 102 fragments of iron pyrites.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 10

Y coordinate 165

Bibliographic source Pitt-Rivers 1898, Grinsell 1959

Query

Site name	Handley 23, Handley Hill
Site number	700
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4072 4081 4085 4091 4098 4104 4111 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a central cremation interred in a circular pit. There were two secondary cremations, one 3.45m to the south east in an inverted Early to Middle Bronze Age collared urn in a pit. The second collared urn was 3.75m to the north east and broken, the bones mixed in with the sherds. About 6m to the north of the central cremation was a crouched interment oriented NE with a bronze awl at the top of the skull. The mound material contained a few sherds, 54 flint flakes, 13 burnt flints, 12 sandstone flints and 102 fragments of iron pyrites.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	10
Y coordinate	165
Bibliographic source	Pitt-Rivers 1898, Grinsell 1959