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Site name | Puncknowle 1 |
Site number | 742 |
Burial codes | 3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3083 3092 3098 3104 3106 3128 3143 3152 3153 3154 3160 3161 3181 |
14/1300bc-8/700bc | A bowl barrow with a primary cremation of one adult c30 or less contained in an upright sub-biconical shaped urn supported by stones which had been placed in a small oval shaped pit near the centre of a burnt area (the pyre site?). There was some cremated bone in the pit. The pit was sealed by a horizontal stone slab surrounded by a square shaped emplacement of burnt stone. Over this was a loose stone cairn, and the covering mound comprised brown sandy soil. Some food vessel sherds were on the old land surface of the barrow floor. There was no ditch. |
Remains/Period | Y3 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | SY |
X coordinate | 533 |
Y coordinate | 878 |
Bibliographic source | Grinsell 1959, Greenfield 1984 |
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