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Site name | Handley 29 |
Site number | 705 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4091 4098 4104 4111 4129 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181 1002 1005 1022 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1042 1047 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1104 1108 1111 1128 1143 1153 1181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow with a central cremation in an inverted collared urn in a 1.1m deep pit. With the bones were a bone needle, 2 burnt flint flakes, and a burnt flint knife. The barrow mound contained a number of flint scrapers and 30 fragments of pottery. |
100bc-AD43 | In the north east sector of the ditch were three contracted inhumations (one of a child), oriented NW, above the silt layer, and believed to be Romano-British native burials. The second adult was disarticulated, the other two articulated. |
Remains/Period | Y4 Y1 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | ST |
X coordinate | 999 |
Y coordinate | 153 |
Bibliographic source | Pitt-Rivers 1898, Grinsell 1959 |
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