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Site name Poole 36, Knighton Heath
Site number 737
Burial codes 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4053 4143 4152 4153 4184
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with slight berm comprising a turf sod mound with a revetment of grey sand and smoothing of the turf mound with brown-yellow sand. There were two pits. Pit A was just east of the centre and cut into the pre-barrow soil, comprising two parts separated by an undug septum. The southern part was bilobate and packed with oak charcoal lumps with some sand. The northern was an attenuated oval filled with charcoal flecks, some sand and light brown clayey material..

Pit B was c3m west of the centre, just within the sod mound and contained charcoal flecks and the same light brown clayey material. The ditch had a single causeway at the SSE. There were stake holes and post holes concentrated largely under the sod mound in no distinct pattern.
Remains/Period N4
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square SZ
X coordinate 57
Y coordinate 943
Bibliographic source Farrar 1949, Case 1952


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